About the Authors

Fabian Schnitzler

Affiliation Department of Medicine II—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Matthias Friedrich

Affiliations Department of Medicine II—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany, Department of Preventive Dentistry and Periodontology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Johannes Stallhofer

Affiliation Department of Medicine II—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Ulf Schönermarck

Affiliation Department of Medicine IV Nephrology—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Michael Fischereder

Affiliations Department of Medicine IV Nephrology—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany, Transplantation Center—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Antje Habicht

Affiliation Transplantation Center—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Nazanin Karbalai

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Christiane Wolf

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Marianne Angelberger

Affiliation Department of Medicine II—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Torsten Olszak

Affiliation Department of Medicine II—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Florian Beigel

Affiliation Department of Medicine II—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Cornelia Tillack

Affiliation Department of Medicine II—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Burkhard Göke

Affiliation Department of Medicine II—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Reinhart Zachoval

Affiliation Transplantation Center—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Gerald Denk

Affiliations Department of Medicine II—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany, Transplantation Center—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Markus Guba

Affiliations Transplantation Center—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany, Department of Surgery—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Christian Rust

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital Barmherzige Brüder, Munich, Germany

Norbert Grüner

‡ These authors are shared senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Medicine II—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany, Transplantation Center—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Stephan Brand

stephan.brand@med.uni-muenchen.de

‡ These authors are shared senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Medicine II—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FS SB. Performed the experiments: FS SB. Analyzed the data: FS CW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FS JS US M. Friedrich AH NK CW MA TO FB CT M. Fischereder BG RZ GD MG CR NG SB. Wrote the paper: FS M. Friedrich SB.