About the Authors

Daniel Wicklein

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel Wicklein, Anna Schmidt

d.wicklein@uke.de

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology, University Cancer Center, University Medical-Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Anna Schmidt

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel Wicklein, Anna Schmidt

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology, University Cancer Center, University Medical-Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Vera Labitzky

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology, University Cancer Center, University Medical-Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Sebastian Ullrich

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology, University Cancer Center, University Medical-Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Peter Valent

Affiliations Ludwig-Boltzmann Cluster Oncology, Vienna, Austria, Department of Internal Medicine I, Division of Hematology and Hemostaseology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Udo Schumacher

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology, University Cancer Center, University Medical-Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DW AS SU PV US. Performed the experiments: DW AS VL. Analyzed the data: DW AS VL SU PV US. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SU PV US. Wrote the paper: DW AS PV US.