About the Authors

Lu Jia

Affiliation Center of Metabolic Disease Research, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Jing Xing

Affiliation Center of Metabolic Disease Research, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Ying Ding

Affiliation Center of Metabolic Disease Research, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Yachen Shen

Affiliation Center of Metabolic Disease Research, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Xuhui Shi

Affiliation Center of Metabolic Disease Research, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Wei Ren

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital; Shanghai Diabetes Institute; and Shanghai Clinical Center of Diabetes, Shanghai, China

Meng Wan

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Jianjin Guo

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital; Shanghai Diabetes Institute; and Shanghai Clinical Center of Diabetes, Shanghai, China

Shujing Zheng

Affiliation Center of Metabolic Disease Research, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Yun Liu

Affiliation Center of Metabolic Disease Research, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Xiubin Liang

Affiliation Center of Metabolic Disease Research, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Dongming Su

sudongming@njmu.edu.cn

Affiliations Center of Metabolic Disease Research, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, Center of Cellular Therapy, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DS LJ JX YL XL. Performed the experiments: LJ JX YD YS XS WR MW JG SZ. Analyzed the data: LJ DS JX YD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YD SZ. Wrote the paper: DS LJ.