About the Authors

Xiu Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiu Zhou, Xiao-Yi Zeng

Affiliation Molecular Pharmacology for Diabetes, Health Innovations Research Institute and School of Health Sciences, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Xiao-Yi Zeng

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiu Zhou, Xiao-Yi Zeng

Affiliation Molecular Pharmacology for Diabetes, Health Innovations Research Institute and School of Health Sciences, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Hao Wang

Affiliation Molecular Pharmacology for Diabetes, Health Innovations Research Institute and School of Health Sciences, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Songpei Li

Affiliation Molecular Pharmacology for Diabetes, Health Innovations Research Institute and School of Health Sciences, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Eunjung Jo

Affiliation Molecular Pharmacology for Diabetes, Health Innovations Research Institute and School of Health Sciences, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Charlie C. L. Xue

Affiliation Molecular Pharmacology for Diabetes, Health Innovations Research Institute and School of Health Sciences, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Minjia Tan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Juan C. Molero

Affiliation Molecular Pharmacology for Diabetes, Health Innovations Research Institute and School of Health Sciences, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Ji-Ming Ye

jiming.ye@rmit.edu.au

Affiliation Molecular Pharmacology for Diabetes, Health Innovations Research Institute and School of Health Sciences, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMY XZ XYZ JCM. Performed the experiments: XZ XYZ HW SPL EJ. Analyzed the data: XZ XYZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMY CCX. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: XZ JCM JMY. Revision of the manuscript: XYZ MT CCX.