About the Authors

Marko Roblek

Contributed equally to this work with: Marko Roblek, Stefan Schüchner

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Stefan Schüchner

Contributed equally to this work with: Marko Roblek, Stefan Schüchner

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Veronika Huber

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Katrin Ollram

Current address: Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna, Austria

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Sylvia Vlcek-Vesely

Current address: Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Roland Foisner

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Manfed Wehnert

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University, Greifswald, Germany

Egon Ogris

egon.ogris@meduniwien.ac.at

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

Egon Ogris serves as a consultant to Millipore Corporation (http://www.millipore.com/). None of the co-authors have a competing interest. The royalties paid by Millipore Corporation and Santa Cruz Biotechnology were used for paying for materials as well as for paying the salary of Marko Roblek for a period of 6 months. No patents related to this research have been/are in development and the anti-Lamin A/C monoclonal antibody 4C11 used in this study has been licensed to the biotechnology companies Active Motif, Alexis Corporation and Cell Signaling Technology Inc. The authors confirm that they will adhere to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. In addition, materials will be sent out upon request to EO or SS.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MR SS EO. Performed the experiments: MR SS. Analyzed the data: MR SS EO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VH KO SVV RF MW. Wrote the paper: MR SS EO.