About the Authors

Kevin T Jones

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Elisabeth R Greer

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

David Pearce

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Kaveh Ashrafi

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kaveh.ashrafi@ucsf.edu

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

KTJ and KA conceived and designed the experiments. KTJ performed the experiments. KTJ analyzed the data. ERG contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. KTJ, DP, and KA wrote the paper.