About the Authors

Firuseh Dierkes

Contributed equally to this work with: Firuseh Dierkes, Nikolaos Andriopoulos

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Nikolaos Andriopoulos

Contributed equally to this work with: Firuseh Dierkes, Nikolaos Andriopoulos

Affiliation Renal Division, Department of Medicine and Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Christoph Sucker

Affiliation Department of Hemostasis and Transfusion Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University Medical Center, Düsseldorf, Germany

Kathrin Kuhr

Affiliation Institute of Medical Statistics, Informatics and Epidemiology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Markus Hollenbeck

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Knappschaftskrankenhaus, Bottrop, Germany

Gerd R. Hetzel

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Volker Burst

Affiliation Renal Division, Department of Medicine and Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Sven Teschner

Affiliation Renal Division, Department of Medicine and Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Lars C. Rump

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Thomas Benzing

Affiliations Renal Division, Department of Medicine and Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Bernd Grabensee

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Christine E. Kurschat

christine.kurschat@uk-koeln.de

Affiliations Renal Division, Department of Medicine and Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CEK. Performed the experiments: FD. Analyzed the data: CEK KK NA. Wrote the paper: CEK. Critical revision of the manuscript and important intellectual contribution: CS MH GRH VB ST LCR TB BG.