About the Authors

Tina Sartorius

tina.sartorius@med.uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Vascular Disease, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Member of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), University of Tuebingen, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Tuebingen, Germany, Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tuebingen (IDM), Tuebingen, Germany

Andreas Peter

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Vascular Disease, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Member of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), University of Tuebingen, Germany

Nadja Schulz

Affiliations German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Tuebingen, Germany, Department of Experimental Diabetology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

Andrea Drescher

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Vascular Disease, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Member of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), University of Tuebingen, Germany

Ina Bergheim

Affiliation Department of Nutritional Sciences, SD Model Systems of Molecular Nutrition, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany

Jürgen Machann

Affiliations German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Tuebingen, Germany, Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tuebingen (IDM), Tuebingen, Germany, Section on Experimental Radiology, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Tuebingen, Germany

Fritz Schick

Affiliation Section on Experimental Radiology, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Tuebingen, Germany

Dorothea Siegel-Axel

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Vascular Disease, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Member of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), University of Tuebingen, Germany

Annette Schürmann

Affiliations German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Tuebingen, Germany, Department of Experimental Diabetology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

Cora Weigert

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Vascular Disease, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Member of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), University of Tuebingen, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Tuebingen, Germany, Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tuebingen (IDM), Tuebingen, Germany

Hans-Ulrich Häring

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Vascular Disease, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Member of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), University of Tuebingen, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Tuebingen, Germany, Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tuebingen (IDM), Tuebingen, Germany

Anita M. Hennige

Affiliations German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Tuebingen, Germany, Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tuebingen (IDM), Tuebingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TS AMH IB. Performed the experiments: TS AP NS AD JM. Analyzed the data: TS AP NS AD JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS AP NS AS CW DSA FS JM HUH. Wrote the paper: TS AMH.