About the Authors

Marius R. Robciuc

marius.robciuc@helsinki.fi

Affiliation Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Paulina Skrobuk

Affiliations Unit of Metabolism, Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Andrey Anisimov

Affiliation Molecular/Cancer Biology Laboratory, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Research Programs Unit and Department of Pathology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Vesa M. Olkkonen

Affiliations Unit of Metabolism, Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research, Helsinki, Finland, Institute of Biomedicine, Anatomy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Kari Alitalo

Affiliation Molecular/Cancer Biology Laboratory, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Research Programs Unit and Department of Pathology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Robert H. Eckel

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Heikki A. Koistinen

Affiliations Unit of Metabolism, Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Matti Jauhiainen

Affiliation Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Christian Ehnholm

Affiliation Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MRR MJ CE PS HAK AA KA VMO. Performed the experiments: MRR AA. Analyzed the data: MRR MJ CE VMO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PS HAK RHE AA KA VMO. Wrote the paper: MRR MJ CE. Set up the culture for, and characterized the human myoblasts: PS. Commented on the manuscript: PS AA. Generated the viruses: AA. Provided the C2/LPL cell model: RHE. Performed human muscle biopsies: HAK. Revised the manuscript for important intellectual content: VMO KA RHE HAK CE MJ.