About the Authors

Yanling Zhang

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Okayama, Japan, Department of Nephrology, Third Hospital Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China

Jun Wada

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: junwada@md.okayama-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Okayama, Japan

Akihiro Yasuhara

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Okayama, Japan

Izumi Iseda

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Okayama, Japan

Jun Eguchi

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Okayama, Japan

Kenji Fukui

Affiliation Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Qin Yang

Affiliations Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kazuya Yamagata

Affiliation Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Thomas Hiesberger

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Division of Basic Science, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Peter Igarashi

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Division of Basic Science, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Hong Zhang

Affiliation Renal Division, Institute of Nephrology, Peking University First Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China

Haiyan Wang

Affiliation Renal Division, Institute of Nephrology, Peking University First Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China

Shigeru Akagi

Affiliation Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yashpal S. Kanwar

Affiliation Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Hirofumi Makino

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Okayama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YK JW KY YZ JE. Performed the experiments: PI JW HM KY YZ AY II JE KF QY TH HZ SA. Analyzed the data: PI JW HM YZ JE TH SA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW KY KF QY TH HZ HW SA. Wrote the paper: YK JW HM YZ.