Petite Integration Factor 1 (PIF1) helicase deficiency increases weight gain in Western diet-fed female mice without increased inflammatory markers or decreased glucose clearance

• Frances R. Belmonte,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Center for Metabolism and Mitochondrial Medicine, and Vascular Medicine Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3402-8744

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• Nikolaos Dedousis,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pittsburgh, Biomedical Science Tower, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

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• Ian Sipula,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pittsburgh, Biomedical Science Tower, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

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• Nikita A. Desai,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Center for Metabolism and Mitochondrial Medicine, and Vascular Medicine Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

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• Aatur D. Singhi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Pittsburgh Liver Research Center, University of Pittsburgh, Scaife Hall, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

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• Yanxia Chu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, UPMC Montefiore Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

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• Yingze Zhang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, UPMC Montefiore Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

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• Sylvie Bannwarth,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources

  Affiliation Université Côte d'Azur, CHU de Nice, Inserm, CNRS, IRCAN, France

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• Véronique Paquis-Flucklinger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Université Côte d'Azur, CHU de Nice, Inserm, CNRS, IRCAN, France

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• Lea Harrington,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliation Université de Montréal, Institut de Recherche en Immunologie et en Cancérologie, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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• Sruti Shiva,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Center for Metabolism and Mitochondrial Medicine, and Vascular Medicine Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

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• Michael J. Jurczak,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pittsburgh, Biomedical Science Tower, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

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• Robert M. O’Doherty,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pittsburgh, Biomedical Science Tower, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

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• Brett A. Kaufman

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bkauf@pitt.edu

  Affiliation University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Center for Metabolism and Mitochondrial Medicine, and Vascular Medicine Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4767-4937

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