About the Authors

Thomas Kruewel

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Kruewel, Silvia Schenone, Marco Radi, Maurizio Botta

Affiliations Center for Pharmacology and Toxicology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnology, Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, Hannover, Germany

Silvia Schenone

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Kruewel, Silvia Schenone, Marco Radi, Maurizio Botta

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Marco Radi

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Kruewel, Silvia Schenone, Marco Radi, Maurizio Botta

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Giovanni Maga

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Genetics IMG-CNR, Pavia, Italy

Astrid Rohrbeck

Affiliations Center for Pharmacology and Toxicology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnology, Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, Hannover, Germany

Maurizio Botta

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Kruewel, Silvia Schenone, Marco Radi, Maurizio Botta

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Juergen Borlak

borlak@item.fraunhofer.de

Affiliations Center for Pharmacology and Toxicology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnology, Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TK SS MR GM MB JB. Performed the experiments: TK SS MR GM AR. Analyzed the data: TK SS MR GM AR JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB JB. Wrote the paper: TK JB.