About the Authors

Tobias Sperka

Affiliations Morrison Laboratory, Leibniz Institute for Age Research – Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Jena, Germany, Herrlich Laboratory, Leibniz Institute for Age Research – Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Jena, Germany

Katja J. Geißler

Affiliation Morrison Laboratory, Leibniz Institute for Age Research – Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Jena, Germany

Ulrike Merkel

Affiliation Morrison Laboratory, Leibniz Institute for Age Research – Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Jena, Germany

Ingmar Scholl

Affiliation Morrison Laboratory, Leibniz Institute for Age Research – Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Jena, Germany

Ignacio Rubio

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, Centre for Molecular Biomedicine, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany

Peter Herrlich

Affiliation Herrlich Laboratory, Leibniz Institute for Age Research – Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Jena, Germany

Helen L. Morrison

helen@fli-leibniz.de

Affiliation Morrison Laboratory, Leibniz Institute for Age Research – Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HM PH. Performed the experiments: HM TS KJG UM IS. Analyzed the data: HM TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IR. Wrote the paper: HM PH.