About the Authors

Heidi Högel

Contributed equally to this work with: Heidi Högel, Krista Rantanen

Affiliation Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Turku University and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

Krista Rantanen

Contributed equally to this work with: Heidi Högel, Krista Rantanen

Affiliation Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Turku University and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

Terhi Jokilehto

Affiliation Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Turku University and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

Reidar Grenman

Affiliations Department of Medical Biochemistry, Turku University, Turku, Finland, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

Panu M. Jaakkola

panjaa@utu.fi

Affiliations Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Turku University and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HH KR TJ PJ. Performed the experiments: HH KR TJ. Analyzed the data: HH KR TJ PJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RG. Wrote the paper: HH KR PJ.