About the Authors

Doreen Meier

Contributed equally to this work with: Doreen Meier, Janis Kruse

Affiliation Department of Genetics, FB10, Kassel University, Kassel, Germany

Janis Kruse

Contributed equally to this work with: Doreen Meier, Janis Kruse

Affiliation Ribogenetics Biochemistry Laboratory, Department of Life Science and Chemistry, Molecular Life Sciences Research Center, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

Jann Buttlar

Affiliation Department of Genetics, FB10, Kassel University, Kassel, Germany

Michael Friedrich

Affiliation Department of Genetics, FB10, Kassel University, Kassel, Germany

Fides Zenk

Affiliation Department of Genetics, FB10, Kassel University, Kassel, Germany

Benjamin Boesler

Affiliation Department of Genetics, FB10, Kassel University, Kassel, Germany

Konrad U. Förstner

Affiliation Core Unit System Medicine, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Christian Hammann

Affiliation Ribogenetics Biochemistry Laboratory, Department of Life Science and Chemistry, Molecular Life Sciences Research Center, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

Wolfgang Nellen

nellen@uni-kassel.de

Current address: Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Brawijaya University, Malang, East Java, Indonesia

Affiliation Department of Genetics, FB10, Kassel University, Kassel, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DM JK CH WN. Performed the experiments: DM JK JB MF FZ KUF BB. Analyzed the data: DM JK MF KUF CH WN. Wrote the paper: DM WN.