About the Authors

Maciej Grzywnowicz

Contributed equally to this work with: Maciej Grzywnowicz, Joanna Zaleska

Affiliation Department of Experimental Hematooncology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

Joanna Zaleska

Contributed equally to this work with: Maciej Grzywnowicz, Joanna Zaleska

Affiliation Department of Experimental Hematooncology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

Daniel Mertens

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine III, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Cooperation Unit “Mechanisms of Leukemogenesis", German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Waldemar Tomczak

Affiliation Department of Hematooncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

Paulina Wlasiuk

Affiliation Department of Experimental Hematooncology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

Kamila Kosior

Affiliation Department of Hematooncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

Agnieszka Piechnik

Affiliation Department of Experimental Hematooncology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

Agnieszka Bojarska-Junak

Affiliation Department of Clinical Immunology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

Anna Dmoszynska

Affiliation Department of Hematooncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

Krzysztof Giannopoulos

giannop@tlen.pl

Affiliations Department of Experimental Hematooncology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland, Department of Internal Medicine III, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Department of Hematooncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KG AD DM. Performed the experiments: MG JZ PW KK AP ABJ. Analyzed the data: MG JZ KG WT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DM. Wrote the paper: MG JZ KG. Manuscript discussion: DM AD.