About the Authors

Jacques Montagne

montagne@cgm.cnrs-gif.fr (JM); thomasg4@uc.edu (GT)

Affiliations Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland, Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, CNRS UPR 2167, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Paris, France

Caroline Lecerf

Affiliations Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, CNRS UPR 2167, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Paris, France

Jean-Philippe Parvy

Affiliations Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, CNRS UPR 2167, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Paris, France

Janis M. Bennion

Affiliations Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland, Metabolic Diseases Institute, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Thomas Radimerski

Current address: Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland

Affiliation Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Marie-Laure Ruhf

Affiliations Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland, Metabolic Diseases Institute, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Frederic Zilbermann

Affiliation Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Nicole Vouilloz

Current address: Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Affiliation Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Hugo Stocker

Affiliation ETH, Institut für Molekulare Systembiologie, Zürich, Switzerland

Ernst Hafen

Affiliation ETH, Institut für Molekulare Systembiologie, Zürich, Switzerland

Sara C. Kozma

Affiliations Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland, Metabolic Diseases Institute, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

George Thomas

montagne@cgm.cnrs-gif.fr (JM); thomasg4@uc.edu (GT)

Affiliations Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland, Metabolic Diseases Institute, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JM HS EH GT. Performed the experiments: JM CL JPP JMB TR MLR FZ NV. Analyzed the data: JM JPP GT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EH. Wrote the paper: JM SCK GT.