About the Authors

Shinjiro Kodama

Affiliation Division of Metabolism and Diabetes, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Tetsuya Yamada

Affiliation Division of Metabolism and Diabetes, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Junta Imai

Affiliation Division of Metabolism and Diabetes, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Shojiro Sawada

Affiliation Division of Metabolism and Diabetes, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Kei Takahashi

Affiliation Division of Metabolism and Diabetes, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Sohei Tsukita

Affiliation Division of Metabolism and Diabetes, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Keizo Kaneko

Affiliation Division of Metabolism and Diabetes, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Kenji Uno

Affiliation Division of Metabolism and Diabetes, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Yasushi Ishigaki

Current address: Division of Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Morioka, Japan

Affiliation Division of Metabolism and Diabetes, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Yoshitomo Oka

Affiliation Division of Metabolism and Diabetes, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Hideki Katagiri

katagiri@med.tohoku.ac.jp

Affiliations Division of Metabolism and Diabetes, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, Japan Science and Technology Agency, CREST, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YO HK. Performed the experiments: SK. Analyzed the data: SK TY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JI SS KT ST KU KK YI. Wrote the paper: SK TY HK. Manuscript revision: SK TY HK.