About the Authors

Lisa Reinhard

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa Reinhard, Christian Rupp, Hans-Dieter Riedel

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine IV, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Christian Rupp

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa Reinhard, Christian Rupp, Hans-Dieter Riedel

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine IV, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Hans-Dieter Riedel

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa Reinhard, Christian Rupp, Hans-Dieter Riedel

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine IV, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Thomas Ruppert

Affiliation Deptartment of Proteomics, Center for Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Thomas Giese

Affiliation Department of Immunology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Germany

Christa Flechtenmacher

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Germany

Karl Heinz Weiss

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine IV, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Petra Kloeters-Plachky

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine IV, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Wolfgang Stremmel

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine IV, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Peter Schirmacher

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Germany

Peter Sauer

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine IV, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Daniel Nils Gotthardt

Daniel.Gotthardt@med.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine IV, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LR CR H-DR KW PSchirmacher PSauer WS DG. Performed the experiments: LR CR H-DR TR PKP TG CF DG. Analyzed the data: LR CR H-DR TG CF KW PSchirmacher DG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TR TG WS H-DR PSauer DG. Wrote the paper: LR CR PSchirmacher TG DG.