About the Authors

Katrin Wenzel

katrin.wenzel@charite.de

Affiliations Medical Faculty of the Charité, Berlin, Germany, Experimental and Clinical Research Center and Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Gerd Wallukat

Affiliation Experimental and Clinical Research Center and Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Fatimunnisa Qadri

Affiliation Medical Faculty of the Charité, Berlin, Germany

Norbert Hubner

Affiliation Experimental and Clinical Research Center and Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Herbert Schulz

Affiliation Experimental and Clinical Research Center and Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Oliver Hummel

Affiliation Experimental and Clinical Research Center and Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Florian Herse

Affiliation Medical Faculty of the Charité, Berlin, Germany

Arnd Heuser

Affiliation Experimental and Clinical Research Center and Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Robert Fischer

Affiliations Medical Faculty of the Charité, Berlin, Germany, Experimental and Clinical Research Center and Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Harald Heidecke

Affiliation CellTrend, Luckenwalde, Germany

Friedrich C. Luft

Affiliations Experimental and Clinical Research Center and Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany, HELIOS Clinic-Berlin, Franz-Volhard Clinic, Berlin, Germany

Dominik N. Muller

Affiliation Experimental and Clinical Research Center and Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Rainer Dietz

Affiliation Medical Faculty of the Charité, Berlin, Germany

Ralf Dechend

Affiliations Experimental and Clinical Research Center and Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany, HELIOS Clinic-Berlin, Franz-Volhard Clinic, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

For Ralf Dechends affiliation: HELIOS Clinic is a hospital which has an affiliation with the Max-Delbrueck Center (MDC). He has a contract, where he does 60% clinical duties at the HELIOS clinic and 40% research at the Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine at the Experimental and Clinical Research Center. He also declares that there are no conflicts of interest concerning commercial affiliations and/or patents and/or data sharing with the HELIOS Clinic and the MDC. There are no restrictions on the availability or on the use of datasets.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KW GW DNM RD RD. Performed the experiments: KW GW FQ HS FH AH RF HH. Analyzed the data: KW FQ NH HS OH FH AH RF HH FCL DNM RD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KW GW FQ NH HS OH HH RD RD. Wrote the paper: KW FCL DNM RD.