About the Authors

Bernhard J. Haubner

Contributed equally to this work with: Bernhard J. Haubner, G. Gregory Neely

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III (Cardiology), Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

G. Gregory Neely

Contributed equally to this work with: Bernhard J. Haubner, G. Gregory Neely

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Jakob G. J. Voelkl

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III (Cardiology), Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Federico Damilano

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, Molecular Biotechnology Center, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Keiji Kuba

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Yumiko Imai

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Vukoslav Komnenovic

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Agnes Mayr

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III (Cardiology), Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Otmar Pachinger

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III (Cardiology), Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Emilio Hirsch

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, Molecular Biotechnology Center, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Josef M. Penninger

josef.penninger@oeaw.ac.at

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Bernhard Metzler

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III (Cardiology), Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BJH GGN KK YI OP EH JMP BM. Performed the experiments: BJH GGN JGJV FD KK YI VK AM. Analyzed the data: BJH GGN JGJV AM JMP BM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OP EH JMP BM. Wrote the paper: BJH GGN JMP BM.