About the Authors

Agnes Lovas

Current address: Department of Inner Medicine IV, Medical Clinic, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Affiliation Research Group Immunology, Leibniz-Institute for Age Research – Fritz-Lipmann-Institute, Jena, Germany

Anja Weidemann

Contributed equally to this work with: Anja Weidemann, Daniela Albrecht

Affiliation Research Group Immunology, Leibniz-Institute for Age Research – Fritz-Lipmann-Institute, Jena, Germany

Daniela Albrecht

Contributed equally to this work with: Anja Weidemann, Daniela Albrecht

Affiliation Biocontrol Jena GmbH, Jena, Germany

Lars Wiechert

Current address: Signal Transduction and Growth Control, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Affiliation Research Group Immunology, Leibniz-Institute for Age Research – Fritz-Lipmann-Institute, Jena, Germany

Debra Weih

Affiliation Research Group Immunology, Leibniz-Institute for Age Research – Fritz-Lipmann-Institute, Jena, Germany

Falk Weih

fweih@fli-leibniz.de

Affiliations Research Group Immunology, Leibniz-Institute for Age Research – Fritz-Lipmann-Institute, Jena, Germany, Faculty of Biology and Pharmacology, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The affiliation to Biocontrol Jena GmbH is restricted to the expertise of Daniela Albrecht in the bioinformatic as well as the statistical analysis of the microarray data. Daniela Albrecht does not have anything to declare regarding patents, products in development or marketed products. 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: AL FW. Performed the experiments: AL DA AW LW DW. Analyzed the data: AL DA AW LW DW FW. Wrote the paper: AL FW.