About the Authors

Fabrizio Grosjean

Contributed equally to this work with: Fabrizio Grosjean, Elena M. Yubero-Serrano, Feng Zheng

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

Elena M. Yubero-Serrano

Contributed equally to this work with: Fabrizio Grosjean, Elena M. Yubero-Serrano, Feng Zheng

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

helese35@hotmail.com

Affiliation Lipids and Atherosclerosis Unit, Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Cordoba, and CIBER Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutricion (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Feng Zheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Fabrizio Grosjean, Elena M. Yubero-Serrano, Feng Zheng

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Basic Science Laboratory, Union Hospital Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China

Vittoria Esposito

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Unit of Nephrology and Dialysis, Fondazione IRCCS Salvatore Maugeri, Pavia, Italy

Shobha Swamy

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Sharon J. Elliot

Roles Supervision, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Weijing Cai

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Experimental Diabetes and Aging, Department of Geriatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Helen Vlassara

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Division of Experimental Diabetes and Aging, Department of Geriatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Fadi Salem

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave Levy Place, Annenberg 15–235, New York, New York, United States of America

Gary E. Striker

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Experimental Diabetes and Aging, Department of Geriatrics and Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.