About the Authors

Marylana Saadeh

Contributed equally to this work with: Marylana Saadeh, Thomas C. Ferrante

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Obesity Research Center, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Thomas C. Ferrante

Contributed equally to this work with: Marylana Saadeh, Thomas C. Ferrante

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Obesity Research Center, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ada Kane

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Obesity Research Center, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Orian Shirihai

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Obesity Research Center, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Barbara E. Corkey

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Obesity Research Center, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jude T. Deeney

jdeeney@bu.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Obesity Research Center, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BEC OS JTD. Performed the experiments: MS TCF JTD AK. Analyzed the data: MS TCF BEC JTD. Wrote the paper: BEC JTD.