About the Authors
- Lale Ozcan
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: lo2192@cumc.columbia.edu
Affiliation Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America
- Canan Kasikara
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America
- Arif Yurdagul Jr
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing
Current address: Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America
- George Kuriakose
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis
Affiliation Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America
- Brian Hubbard
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Tabomedex Biosciences, Boxford, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Michael H. Serrano-Wu
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Tabomedex Biosciences, Boxford, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Ira Tabas
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America
Competing Interests
We have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: L.O., B.H., M.H.S.-W., and I.T. are members of Tabomedex Biosciences, Inc., which is developing allosteric MK2 inhibitors for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. All the authors confirm that this commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.