About the Authors

Valeria Zampini

Contributed equally to this work with: Valeria Zampini, Lukas Rüttiger, Stuart L. Johnson, Christoph Franz, David N. Furness

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, Department of Physiology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Lukas Rüttiger

Contributed equally to this work with: Valeria Zampini, Lukas Rüttiger, Stuart L. Johnson, Christoph Franz, David N. Furness

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, THR, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Stuart L. Johnson

Contributed equally to this work with: Valeria Zampini, Lukas Rüttiger, Stuart L. Johnson, Christoph Franz, David N. Furness

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Christoph Franz

Contributed equally to this work with: Valeria Zampini, Lukas Rüttiger, Stuart L. Johnson, Christoph Franz, David N. Furness

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, THR, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

David N. Furness

Contributed equally to this work with: Valeria Zampini, Lukas Rüttiger, Stuart L. Johnson, Christoph Franz, David N. Furness

Affiliation Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom

Jörg Waldhaus

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, THR, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Hao Xiong

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, THR, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China

Carole M. Hackney

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Matthew C. Holley

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Nina Offenhauser

Affiliation IFOM, Fondazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Milan, Italy

Pier Paolo Di Fiore

Affiliations IFOM, Fondazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Milan, Italy, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan, Italy, Dipartimento di Medicina, Chirurgia e Odontoiatria, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Marlies Knipper

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, THR, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Sergio Masetto

w.marcotti@sheffield.ac.uk (WM); smasetto@unipv.it (SM)

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Walter Marcotti

w.marcotti@sheffield.ac.uk (WM); smasetto@unipv.it (SM)

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: WM. Performed the experiments: VZ LR SLJ CF DNF JW HX CMH WM. Analyzed the data: VZ LR SLJ CF DNF JW HX CMH MCH MK WM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NO PPDF. Wrote the paper: SM WM.