About the Authors

Anna Gaertner

Affiliation Erich and Hanna Klessmann Institute for Cardiovascular Research and Development, Clinic of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Diabetes Centre NRW, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

Baerbel Klauke

Affiliation Erich and Hanna Klessmann Institute for Cardiovascular Research and Development, Clinic of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Diabetes Centre NRW, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

Ines Stork

Affiliation Erich and Hanna Klessmann Institute for Cardiovascular Research and Development, Clinic of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Diabetes Centre NRW, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

Karsten Niehaus

Affiliation Department for Proteome and Metabolome Research, Faculty of Biology and Centre for Biotechnology-CeBiTec, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

Gesa Niemann

Affiliation Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

Jan Gummert

Affiliation Erich and Hanna Klessmann Institute for Cardiovascular Research and Development, Clinic of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Diabetes Centre NRW, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

Hendrik Milting

hmilting@hdz-nrw.de

Affiliation Erich and Hanna Klessmann Institute for Cardiovascular Research and Development, Clinic of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Diabetes Centre NRW, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG BK IS HM. Performed the experiments: AG GN KN. Analyzed the data: AG BK HM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GN KN JG HM. Wrote the paper: AG HM.