About the Authors

Ivonne Wallrabenstein

Ivonne.Wallrabenstein@rub.de

Affiliation Department of Cell Physiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Jonas Kuklan

Affiliation Department of Cell Physiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Lea Weber

Affiliation Department of Cell Physiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Sandra Zborala

Affiliation Department of Cell Physiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Markus Werner

Affiliation Department of Cell Physiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Janine Altmüller

Affiliation Cologne Center for Genomics (CCG), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Christian Becker

Affiliation Cologne Center for Genomics (CCG), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Anna Schmidt

Affiliation Smell and Taste Clinic, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Dresden Medical School (“Technische Universität Dresden”), Dresden, Germany

Hanns Hatt

Affiliation Department of Cell Physiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Thomas Hummel

Affiliation Smell and Taste Clinic, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Dresden Medical School (“Technische Universität Dresden”), Dresden, Germany

Günter Gisselmann

Affiliation Department of Cell Physiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GG TH HH. Performed the experiments: IW JK LW SZ AS JA CB MW. Analyzed the data: GG IW JK MW. Wrote the paper: GG IW JK.