About the Authors

Kana Inoue

Affiliation Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Norikazu Maeda

norikazu_maeda@endmet.med.osaka-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Takuya Mori

Affiliation Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Ryohei Sekimoto

Affiliation Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Yu Tsushima

Affiliation Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Keisuke Matsuda

Affiliation Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Masaya Yamaoka

Affiliation Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Takayoshi Suganami

Affiliation Department of Organ Network and Metabolism, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Hitoshi Nishizawa

Affiliation Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Yoshihiro Ogawa

Affiliation Department of Molecular Endocrinology and Metabolism, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Tohru Funahashi

Affiliations Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Department of Metabolism and Atherosclerosis, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Iichiro Shimomura

Affiliation Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KI NM TM. Performed the experiments: KI TM RS YT KM MY HN. Analyzed the data: KI NM TM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS YO. Wrote the paper: KI NM TF IS.