About the Authors

Alexander W. Beham

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander W. Beham, Kerstin Puellmann, Rebecca Laird, Tina Fuchs

abeham@chirurgie-goettingen.de (AWB); wolfgang.kaminski@umm.de (WEK)

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Kerstin Puellmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander W. Beham, Kerstin Puellmann, Rebecca Laird, Tina Fuchs

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany

Rebecca Laird

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander W. Beham, Kerstin Puellmann, Rebecca Laird, Tina Fuchs

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Tina Fuchs

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander W. Beham, Kerstin Puellmann, Rebecca Laird, Tina Fuchs

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg Medical Faculty Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

Roswita Streich

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Caroline Breysach

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Dirk Raddatz

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Septimia Oniga

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg Medical Faculty Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

Teresa Peccerella

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg Medical Faculty Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

Peter Findeisen

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg Medical Faculty Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

Julia Kzhyshkowska

Affiliations Department of Dermatology, University of Heidelberg Medical Faculty Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany, Institute of General Pathology and Pathophysiology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Alexei Gratchev

Affiliations Department of Dermatology, University of Heidelberg Medical Faculty Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany, Institute of General Pathology and Pathophysiology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Stefan Schweyer

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Bernadette Saunders

Affiliation Medicine, Central Clinical School, Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology, Sydney, Australia

Johannes T. Wessels

Affiliation Department of Nephrology/Rheumatology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Wiebke Möbius

Affiliations Max-Planck-Institute of Experimental Medicine, Department of Neurogenetics, Göttingen, Germany, Trinity College Dublin, Institute of Molecular Medicine, College Green, Dublin, Ireland

Joseph Keane

Affiliation Trinity College Dublin, Institute of Molecular Medicine, College Green, Dublin, Ireland

Heinz Becker

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Arnold Ganser

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany

Michael Neumaier

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg Medical Faculty Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

Wolfgang E. Kaminski

abeham@chirurgie-goettingen.de (AWB); wolfgang.kaminski@umm.de (WEK)

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg Medical Faculty Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AW. Beham, K. Puellmann, R. Laird, T. Fuchs, S. Oniga, T. Peccerella, P. Findeisen, J. Kzhyshkowska, A. Gratchev, B. Saunders, JT. Wessels, W. Möbius, WE. Kaminski. Performed the experiments: AW. Beham, K. Puellmann, R. Laird, T. Fuchs, R. Streich, C. Breysach, S. Oniga, T. Peccerella, P. Findeisen, J. Kzhyshkowska, A. Gratchev, S. Schweyer, B. Saunders, JT. Wessels, W. Möbius, WE. Kaminski. Analyzed the data: AW. Beham, K. Puellmann, R. Laird, T. Fuchs, S. Oniga, T. Peccerella, P. Findeisen, J. Kzhyshkowska, A. Gratchev, B. Saunders, J. Wessels, W. Möbius, J. Keane, H. Becker, A. Ganser, M. Neumaier, WE. Kaminski. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: D. Raddatz, J. Keane, B. Saunders. Wrote the paper: AW. Beham, K. Puellmann, WE. Kaminski.