About the Authors

Sebastian Seitz

Contributed equally to this work with: Sebastian Seitz, Johannes Keller, Arndt F. Schilling

Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Johannes Keller

Contributed equally to this work with: Sebastian Seitz, Johannes Keller, Arndt F. Schilling

Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Arndt F. Schilling

Contributed equally to this work with: Sebastian Seitz, Johannes Keller, Arndt F. Schilling

Affiliations Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Anke Jeschke

Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Robert P. Marshall

Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Brenda D. Stride

Affiliation Division Molecular Biology of the Cell I, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Tim Wintermantel

Affiliation Division Molecular Biology of the Cell I, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Frank T. Beil

Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Michael Amling

Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Günther Schütz

Affiliation Division Molecular Biology of the Cell I, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Jan Tuckermann

jan@fli-leibniz.de (JT); schinke@uke.de (TS)

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Age Research-Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena, Germany

Thorsten Schinke

jan@fli-leibniz.de (JT); schinke@uke.de (TS)

Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, 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: MA GS JT TS. Performed the experiments: SS JK AFS AJ RPM BDS FTB TW. Analyzed the data: JK JT TS. Wrote the paper: JK JT TS.