About the Authors

Yuri Churin

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuri Churin, Martin Roderfeld

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Martin Roderfeld

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuri Churin, Martin Roderfeld

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Johannes Stiefel

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Tilman Würger

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Dirk Schröder

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Tomomitsu Matono

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Hans-Joachim Mollenkopf

Affiliation Core Facility Microarray, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Roberta Montalbano

Affiliation Institute for Surgical Research, Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Malvika Pompaiah

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Kurt Reifenberg

Affiliation Central Laboratory Animal Facility, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Daniel Zahner

Affiliation Division of Animal Welfare and Ethology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Matthias Ocker

Current address: Bayer Pharma AG, Clinical Sciences – Experimental Medicine Oncology, Berlin, Germany

Affiliation Institute for Surgical Research, Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Wolfram Gerlich

Affiliation Institute of Medical Virology, National Reference Centre for Hepatitis B and D Viruses, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Dieter Glebe

Affiliation Institute of Medical Virology, National Reference Centre for Hepatitis B and D Viruses, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Elke Roeb

elke.roeb@innere.med.uni-giessen.de

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YC MR ER. Performed the experiments: YC MR JS TW DS TM RM. Analyzed the data: HJM MP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KR DZ MO DG. Wrote the paper: YC MR ER. Critically read the manuscript: WG.