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Replying to J. A. Timmons, K. Baar, P. K. Davidsen & P. J. Atherton Nature 488, 10.1038/nature11364 (2012)

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  1. *Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, 3 Blackfan Circle, CLS Building, Floor 11, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA,

    Pontus Boström, Jun Wu, Anisha Korde, Li Ye, James C. Lo, Kyle A. Rasbach, Jang Hyun Choi, Jonathan Z. Long & Bruce M. Spiegelman

  2. Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 02115, Massachusetts, USA

    Mark P. Jedrychowski & Steven P. Gygi

  3. Renal Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 02115, Massachusetts, USA

    Elisabeth Almer Boström

  4. UCSF Diabetes Center and Department of Cell and Tissue, Biology, University of California, San Francisco, 94143, California, USA

    Shingo Kajimura

  5. Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Electron Microscopy Unit-Azienda Ospedali Riuniti, 60020, Ancona, Italy

    Maria Cristina Zingaretti & Saverio Cinti

  6. Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes Research Center, Odense University Hospital, DK-5000, Odense, Denmark

    Birgitte F. Vind & Kurt Højlund

  7. ☆LakePharma, Inc., 530 Harbor Blvd, Belmont, California 94002, USA,

    Hua Tu

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Boström, P., Wu, J., Jedrychowski, M. et al. Boström et al. reply. Nature 488, E10–E11 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11365

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