About the Authors

Bhavapriya Vaitheesvaran

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Stable Isotope and Metabolomics Core Facility, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Diabetes Center, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Li Yang

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Kirsten Hartil

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Stable Isotope and Metabolomics Core Facility, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Diabetes Center, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Sherrye Glaser

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Stephen Yazulla

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

James E. Bruce

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Irwin J. Kurland

irwin.kurland@einstein.yu.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Stable Isotope and Metabolomics Core Facility, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Diabetes Center, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BV JEB IJK. Performed the experiments: BV LY KH. Analyzed the data: BV LY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG SY JEB IJK. Wrote the paper: BV IJK.