About the Authors

Rainer Lehmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Rainer Lehmann, Xinjie Zhao, Cora Weigert

Rainer.Lehmann@med.uni-tuebingen.de (RL); xugw@dicp.ac.cn (GX)

Affiliation Central Laboratory, Division of Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Xinjie Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Rainer Lehmann, Xinjie Zhao, Cora Weigert

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China

Cora Weigert

Contributed equally to this work with: Rainer Lehmann, Xinjie Zhao, Cora Weigert

Affiliation Central Laboratory, Division of Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Perikles Simon

Affiliation Department of Sports Medicine, Disease Prevention and Rehabilitation, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Elvira Fehrenbach

† Deceased.

Affiliation Institute for Clinical and Experimental Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Jens Fritsche

Affiliation Immatics biotechnologies GmbH, Tuebingen, Germany

Jürgen Machann

Affiliation Section on Experimental Radiology, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Fritz Schick

Affiliation Section on Experimental Radiology, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Jiangshan Wang

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China

Miriam Hoene

Affiliation Central Laboratory, Division of Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Erwin D. Schleicher

Affiliation Central Laboratory, Division of Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Hans-Ulrich Häring

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine 4, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Guowang Xu

Rainer.Lehmann@med.uni-tuebingen.de (RL); xugw@dicp.ac.cn (GX)

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China

Andreas M. Niess

Affiliation Department of Sports Medicine, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RL CW PS EF FS ES HUH GX AMN. Performed the experiments: XZ PS EF JM JW MH. Analyzed the data: RL XZ CW PS EF JF JM MH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RL CW PS FS HUH GX AMN. Wrote the paper: RL CW JF GX AMN.