About the Authors

Lisa Marcinowski

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa Marcinowski, Mélanie Tanguy, Astrid Krmpotic, Lars Dölken

Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Mélanie Tanguy

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa Marcinowski, Mélanie Tanguy, Astrid Krmpotic, Lars Dölken

Affiliation Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, Université de Strasbourg, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du CNRS, Strasbourg, France

Astrid Krmpotic

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa Marcinowski, Mélanie Tanguy, Astrid Krmpotic, Lars Dölken

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Bernd Rädle

Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Vanda J. Lisnić

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Lee Tuddenham

Affiliation Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, Université de Strasbourg, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du CNRS, Strasbourg, France

Béatrice Chane-Woon-Ming

Affiliation Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, Université de Strasbourg, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du CNRS, Strasbourg, France

Zsolt Ruzsics

Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Florian Erhard

Affiliation Institute for Informatics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Corinna Benkartek

Affiliation Department of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Marina Babic

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Ralf Zimmer

Affiliation Institute for Informatics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Joanne Trgovcich

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Ulrich H. Koszinowski

Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Stipan Jonjic

jstipan@medri.hr (SJ); s.pfeffer@ibmc-cnrs.unistra.fr (SP); ld408@medschl.cam.ac.uk (LD)

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Sébastien Pfeffer

jstipan@medri.hr (SJ); s.pfeffer@ibmc-cnrs.unistra.fr (SP); ld408@medschl.cam.ac.uk (LD)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, Université de Strasbourg, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du CNRS, Strasbourg, France

Lars Dölken

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa Marcinowski, Mélanie Tanguy, Astrid Krmpotic, Lars Dölken

jstipan@medri.hr (SJ); s.pfeffer@ibmc-cnrs.unistra.fr (SP); ld408@medschl.cam.ac.uk (LD)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Max von Pettenkofer-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

A patent application has been filed using the m169 transcript to target miRNAs for degradation. Besides this, there are no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LD SP SJ. Performed the experiments: LM MT AK BR VJL LT CB MB SP LD. Analyzed the data: AK LT VJL BCWM ZR FE RZ SJ SP LD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CB MB RZ JT UHK. Wrote the paper: LM MT LT SJ SP LD.