About the Authors

Petra M. Wandernoth

Contributed equally to this work with: Petra M. Wandernoth, Michael Raubuch

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Saarland University, Homburg, Saar, Germany

Michael Raubuch

Contributed equally to this work with: Petra M. Wandernoth, Michael Raubuch

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Saarland University, Homburg, Saar, Germany

Nadja Mannowetz

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Saarland University, Homburg, Saar, Germany

Holger M. Becker

Affiliation Division of Zoology/Membrane Transport, Department of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Joachim W. Deitmer

Affiliation Division of General Zoology, Department of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

William S. Sly

Affiliation Edward A. Doisy Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Gunther Wennemuth

angwen@uks.eu

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Saarland University, Homburg, Saar, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GW JWD HMB. Performed the experiments: PMW MR NM WSS. Analyzed the data: GW MR NM PMW HMB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WSS HMB JWD. Wrote the paper: GW MR PMW NM.