About the Authors

Boris Fischer

Affiliation Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Manuel Metzger

Affiliation Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Rebecca Richardson

Current address: Departments of Physiology & Biochemistry, School of Medical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom.

Affiliation Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Philipp Knyphausen

Affiliation Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Thomas Ramezani

Affiliation Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Rainer Franzen

Affiliation Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany

Elmon Schmelzer

Affiliation Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany

Wilhelm Bloch

Affiliation Institute of Cardiology and Sports Medicine, German Sport University Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Thomas J. Carney

Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Proteos, Singapore

Matthias Hammerschmidt

mhammers@uni-koeln.de

Affiliations Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BF MH. Performed the experiments: BF MM RR PK TR RF ES WB. Analyzed the data: BF WB MH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TJC. Wrote the paper: BF MH.