About the Authors

Subrata Chowdhury

Affiliation Fraser Laboratories for Diabetes Research, Department of Medicine, the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada

Larson Grimm

Affiliation Fraser Laboratories for Diabetes Research, Department of Medicine, the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada

Ying Jia Kate Gong

Affiliation Fraser Laboratories for Diabetes Research, Department of Medicine, the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada

Beixi Wang

Affiliation Fraser Laboratories for Diabetes Research, Department of Medicine, the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada

Bing Li

Affiliation Fraser Laboratories for Diabetes Research, Department of Medicine, the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada

Coimbatore B. Srikant

Affiliation Fraser Laboratories for Diabetes Research, Department of Medicine, the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada

Zu-hua Gao

jun-li.liu@mcgill.ca (JLL); zu-hua.gao@mcgill.ca (ZHG)

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada

Jun-Li Liu

jun-li.liu@mcgill.ca (JLL); zu-hua.gao@mcgill.ca (ZHG)

Affiliations Fraser Laboratories for Diabetes Research, Department of Medicine, the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada, Montreal Diabetes Research Centre, Montreal, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SC CBS ZHG JLL. Performed the experiments: SC LG YJKG BW BL. Analyzed the data: SC CBS JLL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SC LG ZHG JLL. Wrote the paper: SC LG CBS ZHG JLL.