About the Authors

Thilo Welsch

Contributed equally to this work with: Thilo Welsch, Stefanie Zschäbitz

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Stefanie Zschäbitz

Contributed equally to this work with: Thilo Welsch, Stefanie Zschäbitz

Current address: Department of Preventive Oncology, National Center of Tumor Diseases/NCT, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Verena Becker

Current address: Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Division Systems Biology of Signal Transduction, German Cancer Research Center and Bioquant, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Thomas Giese

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Frank Bergmann

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Ulf Hinz

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Shereen Keleg

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Anette Heller

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Bence Sipos

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Ursula Klingmüller

Affiliation Division Systems Biology of Signal Transduction, German Cancer Research Center and Bioquant, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Markus W. Büchler

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Jens Werner

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Nathalia A. Giese

nathalia.giese@med.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TW SZ NAG. Performed the experiments: SZ VB UK TG SK AH. Analyzed the data: TW SZ VB TG UH SK AH FB BS UK NAG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VB UK TG UH. Wrote the paper: TW SZ NAG. Collected samples and provided critical comments: MWB JW.