About the Authors

Jianjin Guo

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Wei Ren

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital; Shanghai Diabetes Institute; and Shanghai Clinical Center of Diabetes, Shanghai, China

Ying Ding

Affiliation The Center of Metabolic Disease Research, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Aimei Li

Affiliation The Center of Metabolic Disease Research, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Lu Jia

Affiliation The Center of Metabolic Disease Research, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Dongming Su

Affiliation The Center of Metabolic Disease Research, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Xiang Liu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Kuanfeng Xu

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Tao Yang

yangt@njmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DS XL TY. Analyzed the data: KX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JG WR AL LJ. Wrote the paper: JG WR. Performed the experiments, cytobiology expriments: JG. Performed the experiments, molecular biology expriments: WR YD.