About the Authors

Bjoern F. Kraemer

Contributed equally to this work with: Bjoern F. Kraemer, Robert A. Campbell, Andrew S. Weyrich

Affiliations Molecular Medicine Program, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Medizinische Klinik III, Universitaetsklinikum Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Robert A. Campbell

Contributed equally to this work with: Bjoern F. Kraemer, Robert A. Campbell, Andrew S. Weyrich

Affiliation Molecular Medicine Program, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Hansjörg Schwertz

Affiliations Molecular Medicine Program, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Mark J. Cody

Affiliation Molecular Medicine Program, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Zechariah Franks

Affiliation Molecular Medicine Program, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Neal D. Tolley

Affiliation Molecular Medicine Program, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Walter H. A. Kahr

Affiliation Division of Haematology/Oncology, Program in Cell Biology, Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Stephan Lindemann

Affiliation The Petri-Hospital, Warburg, Germany

Peter Seizer

Affiliation Medizinische Klinik III, Universitaetsklinikum Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Christian C. Yost

Affiliations Molecular Medicine Program, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Guy A. Zimmerman

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Andrew S. Weyrich

Contributed equally to this work with: Bjoern F. Kraemer, Robert A. Campbell, Andrew S. Weyrich

andy.weyrich@u2m2.utah.edu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BFK RAC HS NDT SL PS GAZ ASW. Performed the experiments: BFK RAC HS MJC ZF WHAK. Analyzed the data: BFK RAC HS MJC ZF CCY GAZ ASW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NDT WHAK. Wrote the paper: BFK RAC ASW.