About the Authors

Niloofar Ale-Agha

Contributed equally to this work with: Niloofar Ale-Agha, Christine Goy, Philipp Jakobs

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Heisenberg-group—Environmentally-induced Cardiovascular Degeneration, Medical Faculty, HHU Duesseldorf and IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Duesseldorf, Germany

Christine Goy

Contributed equally to this work with: Niloofar Ale-Agha, Christine Goy, Philipp Jakobs

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Heisenberg-group—Environmentally-induced Cardiovascular Degeneration, Medical Faculty, HHU Duesseldorf and IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Duesseldorf, Germany

Philipp Jakobs

Contributed equally to this work with: Niloofar Ale-Agha, Christine Goy, Philipp Jakobs

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Heisenberg-group—Environmentally-induced Cardiovascular Degeneration, Medical Faculty, HHU Duesseldorf and IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Duesseldorf, Germany

Ioakim Spyridopoulos

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Stefanie Gonnissen

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Core Unit Biosafety Level 2 Laboratory, IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Duesseldorf, Germany

Nadine Dyballa-Rukes

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Heisenberg-group—Environmentally-induced Cardiovascular Degeneration, Medical Faculty, HHU Duesseldorf and IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Duesseldorf, Germany

Karin Aufenvenne

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Heisenberg-group—Environmentally-induced Cardiovascular Degeneration, Medical Faculty, HHU Duesseldorf and IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Duesseldorf, Germany

Florian von Ameln

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliations Heisenberg-group—Environmentally-induced Cardiovascular Degeneration, Medical Faculty, HHU Duesseldorf and IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Duesseldorf, Germany, Core Unit Biosafety Level 2 Laboratory, IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Duesseldorf, Germany

Mark Zurek

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Heisenberg-group—Environmentally-induced Cardiovascular Degeneration, Medical Faculty, HHU Duesseldorf and IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Duesseldorf, Germany

Tim Spannbrucker

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Environmentally-induced Skin and Lung Aging, IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Duesseldorf, Germany

Olaf Eckermann

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Heisenberg-group—Environmentally-induced Cardiovascular Degeneration, Medical Faculty, HHU Duesseldorf and IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Duesseldorf, Germany

Sascha Jakob

Roles Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Heisenberg-group—Environmentally-induced Cardiovascular Degeneration, Medical Faculty, HHU Duesseldorf and IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Duesseldorf, Germany

Simone Gorressen

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute for Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, Medical Faculty, HHU Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

Marcel Abrams

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute for Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, Medical Faculty, HHU Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

Maria Grandoch

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute for Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, Medical Faculty, HHU Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

Jens W. Fischer

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute for Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, Medical Faculty, HHU Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

Karl Köhrer

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Biological and Medical Research Center (BMFZ), HHU, Duesseldorf, Germany

René Deenen

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation

Affiliation Biological and Medical Research Center (BMFZ), HHU, Duesseldorf, Germany

Klaus Unfried

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Environmentally-induced Skin and Lung Aging, IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Duesseldorf, Germany

Joachim Altschmied

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

juhae001@uni-duesseldorf.de (JH); joalt001@uni-duesseldorf.de (JA)

‡ JA and JH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Core Unit Biosafety Level 2 Laboratory, IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Duesseldorf, Germany

Judith Haendeler

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

juhae001@uni-duesseldorf.de (JH); joalt001@uni-duesseldorf.de (JA)

‡ JA and JH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Heisenberg-group—Environmentally-induced Cardiovascular Degeneration, Medical Faculty, HHU Duesseldorf and IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Duesseldorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.