About the Authors

Julia Slotta-Huspenina

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Slotta-Huspenina, Daniela Berg

slotta.huspenina@lrz.tum.de

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Daniela Berg

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Slotta-Huspenina, Daniela Berg

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Karina Bauer

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Claudia Wolff

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Katharina Malinowsky

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Lukas Bauer

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Enken Drecoll

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Marcus Bettstetter

Affiliation Teilgemeinschaftspraxis Molekularpathologie, München, Germany

Marcus Feith

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Axel Walch

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Helmholtz-Zentrum München, Oberschleissheim, Germany

Heinz Höfler

Affiliations Institute of Pathology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, Institute of Pathology, Helmholtz-Zentrum München, Oberschleissheim, Germany

Karl-Friedrich Becker

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Rupert Langer

Affiliations Institute of Pathology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, Institute of Pathology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have the following conflicts: Karl-Friedrich Becker is a named inventor of a patent related to protein extraction from FFPE tissues. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RL HH KFB. Performed the experiments: DB CW KM KB. Analyzed the data: JSH RL MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ED LB MF AW. Wrote the paper: JSH RL.