About the Authors

Tian-Ying Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Tian-Ying Xu, Ling-Ling Guo

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Ling-Ling Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Tian-Ying Xu, Ling-Ling Guo

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Pei Wang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Jie Song

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Ying-Ying Le

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Benoit Viollet

Affiliations Institut Cochin, Université Paris Descartes, CNRS (UMR8104), Paris, France, Inserm, U567, Paris, France

Chao-Yu Miao

cymiao@smmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: C-YM T-YX. Performed the experiments: T-YX L-LG PW JS. Analyzed the data: T-YX L-LG PW JS C-YM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: T-YX Y-YL C-YM. Contributed AMPKα2−/− mice and reviewed the manuscript: BV.