About the Authors

Raul M. Luque

Affiliations Research and Development Division, Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, University of Córdoba, Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), and CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Córdoba, Spain

Qing Lin

Affiliations Research and Development Division, Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

José Córdoba-Chacón

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, University of Córdoba, Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), and CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Córdoba, Spain

Papasani V. Subbaiah

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Thorsten Buch

Affiliation Neuroimmunology Division, Institute of Experimental Immunology, Department of Pathology, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Ari Waisman

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Biology, University Medical Centre, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Hugo Vankelecom

Affiliation Laboratory of Tissue Plasticity, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, University of Leuven (K.U.Leuven), Leuven, Belgium

Rhonda D. Kineman

Kineman@uic.edu

Affiliations Research and Development Division, Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RML HV RDK. Performed the experiments: RML QL JC-C PVS RDK. Analyzed the data: RML QL JC-C RDK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RML PVS TB AW RDK. Wrote the paper: RML JC-C PVS TB HV RDK.