About the Authors

Heike Vogel

Affiliation Departments of Pharmacology, Experimental Diabetology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Dirk Montag

Affiliation Research Group Neurogenetics, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

Timo Kanzleiter

Affiliation Departments of Pharmacology, Experimental Diabetology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Wenke Jonas

Affiliation Departments of Pharmacology, Experimental Diabetology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Daniela Matzke

Affiliation Departments of Pharmacology, Experimental Diabetology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Stephan Scherneck

Affiliation Departments of Pharmacology, Experimental Diabetology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Alexandra Chadt

Affiliations Departments of Pharmacology, Experimental Diabetology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Jonas Töle

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Reinhart Kluge

Affiliation Departments of Pharmacology, Experimental Diabetology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Hans-Georg Joost

Affiliation Departments of Pharmacology, Experimental Diabetology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Annette Schürmann

schuermann@dife.de

Affiliation Departments of Pharmacology, Experimental Diabetology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HV SS HGJ AS. Performed the experiments: HV D. Monag TK D. Matzke WJ AC RK JT. Analyzed the data: HV D. Montag TK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: D. Montag HGJ AS. Wrote the paper: AS.