About the Authors

Franziska Meier-Stiegen

Current address: Research Group Diabetes, University Hospital rechts der Isar, Munich Technical University, Munich, Germany

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Ralf Schwanbeck

ujust@biochem.uni-kiel.de (UJ); rschwanbeck@biochem.uni-kiel.de (RS)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Kristina Bernoth

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Simone Martini

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Thomas Hieronymus

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University Medical School, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen, Germany

David Ruau

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University Medical School, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Martin Zenke

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University Medical School, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Ursula Just

ujust@biochem.uni-kiel.de (UJ); rschwanbeck@biochem.uni-kiel.de (RS)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UJ. Performed the experiments: FMS RS KB SM TH. Analyzed the data: FMS RS KB SM TH DR MZ UJ. Wrote the paper: RS UJ.