About the Authors

Susann Becker

Contributed equally to this work with: Susann Becker, Elke Wandel

Affiliation Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Elke Wandel

Contributed equally to this work with: Susann Becker, Elke Wandel

Affiliations Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Translational Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Manja Wobus

Affiliation Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Rick Schneider

Affiliation Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Salah Amasheh

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Physiology, Charité, Berlin, Germany

Doreen Sittig

Affiliation Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Christiane Kerner

Affiliation Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Ronald Naumann

Affiliation Transgenic Core Facility, MPI for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Joerg Hamann

Affiliation Department of Experimental Immunology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Gabriela Aust

gabriela.aust@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

Affiliation Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB EW GA. Performed the experiments: SB EW MW RS SA DS CK RN GA. Analyzed the data: GA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH. Wrote the paper: GA. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: JH. Obtained funding: JH.