About the Authors

Brigitte Mack

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Grosshadern Medical Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Olivier Gires

olivier.gires@med.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Clinical Cooperation Group Molecular Oncology, Helmholtz-Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Head and Neck Research Department, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OG. Performed the experiments: BM. Analyzed the data: BM OG. Wrote the paper: OG.