Tohru Uchida1, 5, Takehiro Nakamura1, 5, Naoko Hashimoto1, Tomokazu Matsuda1, Ko Kotani1, Hiroshi Sakaue1, Yoshiaki Kido1, Yoshitake Hayashi2, Keiichi I Nakayama3, Morris F White4
& Masato Kasuga11
Division of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Department of Clinical Molecular Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-1 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan.
2
Division of Molecular Medicine and Medical Genetics, International Center for Medical Research, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe 650-0017, Japan.
3
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan.
4
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
5
These authors contributed equally to this work.
Correspondence should be addressed to Masato Kasuga kasuga@med.kobe-u.ac.jp