About the Authors

Holger Christian Müller-Redetzky

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Wolfgang Kummer

Affiliation Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany

Uwe Pfeil

Affiliation Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany

Katharina Hellwig

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Daniel Will

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Renate Paddenberg

Affiliation Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany

Christoph Tabeling

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Stefan Hippenstiel

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Norbert Suttorp

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Martin Witzenrath

martin.witzenrath@charite.de

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HM-R MW. Performed the experiments: HM-R WK KH DW UP RP CT SH. Analyzed the data: HM-R WK UP RP CT. Wrote the paper: HM-R NS MW.