About the Authors

Vladimir Vinokur

Contributed equally to this work with: Vladimir Vinokur, Sarah Weksler-Zangen

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Hadassah-Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

Sarah Weksler-Zangen

Contributed equally to this work with: Vladimir Vinokur, Sarah Weksler-Zangen

Affiliation The Diabetes Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centre, Jerusalem, Israel

Eduard Berenshtein

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Ron Eliashar

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Hadassah-Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

Mordechai Chevion

mottiec@ekmd.huji.ac.il

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MC. Performed the experiments: VV SWZ. Analyzed the data: VV SWZ EB RE MC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SWZ RE MC. Wrote the paper: VV SWZ RE MC.