About the Authors

Khalid Arhzaouy

Contributed equally to this work with: Khalid Arhzaouy, Karl-Heinz Strucksberg

Affiliation Intitute for Biochemistry I, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Karl-Heinz Strucksberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Khalid Arhzaouy, Karl-Heinz Strucksberg

Affiliations Intitute for Biochemistry I, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Sze Man Tung

Affiliation Intitute for Biochemistry I, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Karthikeyan Tangavelou

Current address: Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Affiliation Intitute for Biochemistry I, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Maria Stumpf

Affiliation Intitute for Biochemistry I, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Jan Faix

Affiliation Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Rolf Schröder

Affiliation Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Christoph S. Clemen

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Intitute for Biochemistry I, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Ludwig Eichinger

ludwig.eichinger@uni-koeln.de

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Intitute for Biochemistry I, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LE CC RS. Performed the experiments: KA KHS SMT KT MS JF. Analyzed the data: CC LE KA KHS SMT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KA KHS JF. Wrote the paper: LE CC.