About the Authors

Grit-Carsta Bulwin

Contributed equally to this work with: Grit-Carsta Bulwin, Stephanie Wälter

Affiliation CellAct Pharma GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Stephanie Wälter

Contributed equally to this work with: Grit-Carsta Bulwin, Stephanie Wälter

Affiliation CellAct Pharma GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Mirko Schlawinsky

Affiliation CellAct Pharma GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Thomas Heinemann

Affiliation Kekulé-Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Anke Schulze

Affiliation CellAct Pharma GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Wolfgang Höhne

Affiliation Institut für Biochemie, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany

Gerd Krause

Affiliation Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Berlin, Germany

Wiltrud Kalka-Moll

Affiliation Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Klinikum der Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany

Patricia Fraser

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hans-Dieter Volk

Affiliation Institut für Medizinische Immunologie, Charité, Campus Mitte, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Jürgen Löhler

Affiliations CellAct Pharma GmbH, Berlin, Germany, Molekulare Pathologie, Heinrich-Pette-Institute, Hamburg, Germany

Edgar L. Milford

Affiliation Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nalân Utku

*E-mail: nalan.utku@charite.de

Affiliations CellAct Pharma GmbH, Berlin, Germany, Institut für Medizinische Immunologie, Charité, Campus Mitte, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NU WH GK JL. Performed the experiments: GB SW MS AS WK. Analyzed the data: NU HV WH GB SW MS TH AS GK WK PF JL EM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NU HV WH TH GK WK PF EM. Wrote the paper: NU GB JL EM.