About the Authors
- Stefanie Jeruschke
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Contributed equally to this work with: Stefanie Jeruschke, Anja Katrin Büscher
Affiliation Pediatric Nephrology, Pediatrics II, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
- Anja Katrin Büscher
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Contributed equally to this work with: Stefanie Jeruschke, Anja Katrin Büscher
Affiliation Pediatric Nephrology, Pediatrics II, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
- Jun Oh
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Affiliation Children’s Renal Unit, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Moin Ahson Saleem
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Affiliation Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center, Hamburg, Germany
- Peter Friedrich Hoyer
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Affiliation Pediatric Nephrology, Pediatrics II, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
- Stefanie Weber
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¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Pediatric Nephrology, Pediatrics II, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
- Perihan Nalbant
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* E-mail: perihan.nalbant@uni-due.de
¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Center for Medical Biotechnology, Molecular Cell Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors declare they have received financial support from Novartis Pharmaceuticals (Basic Research Grant). This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. No other commercial funding was acquired. No other relevant agreements relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products etc. have been stipulated with Novartis or any other pharmaceutical company.
Author Contributions
Prepared digital images: SJ PN. Conceived and designed the experiments: SJ AKB JO SW PN. Performed the experiments: SJ PN. Analyzed the data: SJ AKB SW PN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS PFH JO PN. Wrote the paper: SJ AKB SW PN.