About the Authors

Peter F Zipfel

Affiliations Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knoell Institute, Jena, Germany , Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

Matthew Edey

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Stefan Heinen

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knoell Institute, Jena, Germany

Mihály Józsi

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knoell Institute, Jena, Germany

Heiko Richter

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knoell Institute, Jena, Germany

Joachim Misselwitz

Affiliation Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

Bernd Hoppe

Affiliation Children's Hospital of the University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Danny Routledge

Affiliation Northern Molecular Genetics Service Laboratory, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Lisa Strain

Affiliation Northern Molecular Genetics Service Laboratory, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Anne E Hughes

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, Queen's University, Belfast, United Kingdom

Judith A Goodship

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Christoph Licht

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Timothy H. J Goodship

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Christine Skerka

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: christine.skerka@hki-jena.de

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knoell Institute, Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

ME, SH, MJ, HR, DR, LS, and AEH performed the experiments. PFZ, JAG, THJG, and CS conceived and designed the experiments and analyzed the data. JM, BH, CL, and THJG took care of the patients, contributed material, and discussed data. PFZ, THJG, and CS wrote the paper.