About the Authors

Björn Hartleben

Affiliation Renal Division, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Eugen Widmeier

Affiliation Renal Division, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Nicola Wanner

Affiliations Renal Division, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Miriam Schmidts

Affiliation Renal Division, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Sung Tae Kim

Affiliation Renal Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Lisa Schneider

Affiliation Renal Division, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Britta Mayer

Affiliation Renal Division, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Dontscho Kerjaschki

Affiliation Clinical Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Jeffrey H. Miner

Affiliation Renal Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Gerd Walz

Affiliations Renal Division, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Tobias B. Huber

tobias.huber@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Affiliations Renal Division, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BH TBH. Performed the experiments: BH EW NW MS STK LS BM DK JHM. Analyzed the data: BH EW DK JHM GW TBH. Wrote the paper: BH TBH.