About the Authors

Sebastian H. Scharf

sscharf@mpipsykl.mpg.de

Affiliation Research Group Molecular Stress Physiology, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Claudia Liebl

Affiliation Research Group Molecular Stress Physiology, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Elisabeth B. Binder

Affiliation Research Group Molecular Genetics of Affective Disorders, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Mathias V. Schmidt

Contributed equally to this work with: Mathias V. Schmidt, Marianne B. Müller

Affiliation Research Group Neurobiology of Stress, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Marianne B. Müller

Contributed equally to this work with: Mathias V. Schmidt, Marianne B. Müller

Affiliation Research Group Molecular Stress Physiology, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

Dr. Elisabeth Binder is co-inventor on the following patent applications: FKBP5: a novel target for antidepressant therapy. International publication number: WO 2005/054500. All other authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MVS MBM EBB. Performed the experiments: SHS CL. Analyzed the data: SHS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MBM. Wrote the manuscript: SHS.