About the Authors

Verena Bihrer

Contributed equally to this work with: Verena Bihrer, Oliver Waidmann

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University of Frankfurt/M., Frankfurt, Germany

Oliver Waidmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Verena Bihrer, Oliver Waidmann

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University of Frankfurt/M., Frankfurt, Germany

Mireen Friedrich-Rust

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University of Frankfurt/M., Frankfurt, Germany

Nicole Forestier

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University of Frankfurt/M., Frankfurt, Germany

Simone Susser

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University of Frankfurt/M., Frankfurt, Germany

Jörg Haupenthal

Current address: Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Department of Drug Design and Optimization, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University of Frankfurt/M., Frankfurt, Germany

Martin Welker

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University of Frankfurt/M., Frankfurt, Germany

Ying Shi

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University of Frankfurt/M., Frankfurt, Germany

Jan Peveling-Oberhag

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University of Frankfurt/M., Frankfurt, Germany

Andreas Polta

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University of Frankfurt/M., Frankfurt, Germany

Michael von Wagner

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University of Frankfurt/M., Frankfurt, Germany

Heinfried H. Radeke

Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology/ZAFES, University of Frankfurt/M., Frankfurt, Germany

Christoph Sarrazin

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University of Frankfurt/M., Frankfurt, Germany

Jörg Trojan

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University of Frankfurt/M., Frankfurt, Germany

Stefan Zeuzem

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University of Frankfurt/M., Frankfurt, Germany

Bernd Kronenberger

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University of Frankfurt/M., Frankfurt, Germany

Albrecht Piiper

piiper@med.uni-frankfurt.de

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University of Frankfurt/M., Frankfurt, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: A. Piiper BK OW. Performed the experiments: VB JH. Analyzed the data: OW BK JP-O SZ A. Polta HHR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MF-R NF MW YS JT CS MvW SS OW BK. Wrote the paper: A. Piiper.