About the Authors

Christopher Boehlke

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher Boehlke, Heike Janusch

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany

Heike Janusch

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher Boehlke, Heike Janusch

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany

Christoph Hamann

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany

Christian Powelske

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany

Miriam Mergen

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany

Henriette Herbst

Current address: Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology, University Hospital, Wuerzburg, Germany

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany

Fruzsina Kotsis

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany

Roland Nitschke

Affiliations Life Imaging Center, Center for Biosystems Analysis, Albert-Ludwig-University, Freiburg, Germany, Center for Biological Signaling Studies (bioss), Albert-Ludwig-University, Freiburg, Germany

E. Wolfgang Kuehn

wolfgang.kuehn@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany, Center for Biological Signaling Studies (bioss), Albert-Ludwig-University, Freiburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB EWK. Performed the experiments: CB HJ CH MM CP FK HH. Analyzed the data: FK RN HJ CB EWK. Wrote the paper: CB EWK.