About the Authors

Julia Ranzinger

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Ranzinger, Amin Rustom

Julia.Ranzinger@med.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Amin Rustom

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Ranzinger, Amin Rustom

Affiliations Department of New Materials and Biosystems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany, Department of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Marcus Abel

Affiliations Department of New Materials and Biosystems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany, Department of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Julia Leyh

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Lars Kihm

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Margarete Witkowski

Affiliation Institute of Cell Biology and Immunology, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Peter Scheurich

Affiliation Institute of Cell Biology and Immunology, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Martin Zeier

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Vedat Schwenger

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JR AR. Performed the experiments: JR MA JL MW. Analyzed the data: JR AR VS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PS. Wrote the paper: JR AR. Collected clinical samples and patient data: LK. Participated in research design: MZ.