About the Authors

Heike Goehler

Current address: Protagen AG, Dortmund, Germany

Affiliation Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Anja Dröge

Current address: SINA Science Services GmbH, Teltow, Germany

Affiliation Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Rudi Lurz

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Sigrid Schnoegl

Affiliation Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Yury O. Chernoff

Affiliation School of Biology and Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Erich E. Wanker

ewanker@mdc-berlin.de

Affiliation Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HG AD EEW. Performed the experiments: HG AD RL. Analyzed the data: HG AD YOC EEW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YOC. Wrote the paper: HG SS EEW.