About the Authors

Evren Caglayan

Affiliations Klinik III für Innere Medizin, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany

Giulio R. Romeo

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kai Kappert

Affiliation Institut für Pharmakologie, Center for Cardiovascular Research (CCR), Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Margarete Odenthal

Affiliation Institut für Pathologie, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany

Michael Südkamp

Affiliation Herz- und Gefäßchirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Simon C. Body

Affiliation Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Stanton K. Shernan

Affiliation Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Daniel Hackbusch

Affiliation Institut für Pharmakologie, Center for Cardiovascular Research (CCR), Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Marius Vantler

Affiliations Klinik III für Innere Medizin, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany

Andrius Kazlauskas

Affiliation Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Stephan Rosenkranz

stephan.rosenkranz@uk-koeln.de

Affiliations Klinik III für Innere Medizin, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EC MS MV AK SR. Performed the experiments: EC KK MO SB SKS DH. Analyzed the data: EC SB SKS MV SR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GRR KK MS AK. Wrote the paper: EC SR.