About the Authors

Irene Tirado González

Contributed equally to this work with: Irene Tirado González, Gabriela Barrientos

Affiliation Medicine University of Berlin, Charité Centre 12 Internal Medicine and Dermatology, Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Gabriela Barrientos

Contributed equally to this work with: Irene Tirado González, Gabriela Barrientos

Affiliations Medicine University of Berlin, Charité Centre 12 Internal Medicine and Dermatology, Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Berlin, Germany, Laboratorio de Fisiología Molecular Placentaria, Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Nancy Freitag

Affiliation Medicine University of Berlin, Charité Centre 12 Internal Medicine and Dermatology, Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Teresa Otto

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology, University Hospital, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Victor L. J. L. Thijssen

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy, Angiogenesis Laboratory, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Petra Moschansky

Affiliation Medicine University of Berlin, Charité Centre 12 Internal Medicine and Dermatology, Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Petra von Kwiatkowski

Affiliation Medicine University of Berlin, Charité Centre 12 Internal Medicine and Dermatology, Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Burghard F. Klapp

Affiliation Medicine University of Berlin, Charité Centre 12 Internal Medicine and Dermatology, Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Elke Winterhager

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology, University Hospital, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Stefan Bauersachs

Affiliation Chair for Molecular Animal Breeding and Biotechnology, Gene Center, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

Sandra M. Blois

sandra.blois@charite.de

Affiliation Medicine University of Berlin, Charité Centre 12 Internal Medicine and Dermatology, Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SMB. Performed the experiments: ITG GB NF TO VLJLT PM PVK SMB. Analyzed the data: ITG GB NF SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BFK EW. Wrote the paper: GB SMB.