About the Authors

Lale Ozcan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lo2192@cumc.columbia.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Canan Kasikara

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

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

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Brian Hubbard

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Tabomedex Biosciences, Boxford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael H. Serrano-Wu

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

Affiliation Tabomedex Biosciences, Boxford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ira Tabas

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.