About the Authors

Guiyu Lou

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China, Division of Molecular Diabetes Research, Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Research, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Xiaoxiao Ma

Affiliations Division of Molecular Diabetes Research, Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Research, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America, Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Xianghui Fu

Affiliation Division of Molecular Diabetes Research, Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Research, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Zhipeng Meng

Affiliations Division of Molecular Diabetes Research, Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Research, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America, Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Wenyu Zhang

Affiliation Division of Molecular Diabetes Research, Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Research, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Yan-Dong Wang

Affiliation Division of Molecular Diabetes Research, Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Research, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Carl Van Ness

Affiliation Division of Molecular Diabetes Research, Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Research, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Donna Yu

Affiliation Division of Molecular Diabetes Research, Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Research, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Rongzhen Xu

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Cancer Institute, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Wendong Huang

whuang@coh.org

Affiliation Division of Molecular Diabetes Research, Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Research, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WH. Performed the experiments: GL XF ZM WZ CVN. Analyzed the data: XM RX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YDW DY. Wrote the paper: GL WH.