About the Authors

Svenja Illien-Jünger

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Leni & Peter W. May Department of Orthopaedics/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Young Lu

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Leni & Peter W. May Department of Orthopaedics/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Sheeraz A. Qureshi

Affiliation Leni & Peter W. May Department of Orthopaedics/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Andrew C. Hecht

Affiliation Leni & Peter W. May Department of Orthopaedics/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Weijing Cai

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

Helen Vlassara

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

Gary E. Striker

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

James C. Iatridis

james.iatridis@mssm.edu

Affiliation Leni & Peter W. May Department of Orthopaedics/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SIJ YL WC ACH SAQ HV GES JCI. Performed the experiments: SIJ YL WC. Analyzed the data: SIJ YL WC HV GES ACH SAQ JCI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HV GES JCI. Wrote the paper: SIJ YL ACH SAQ WC HV GES JCI.