About the Authors

Barbara M. Grüner

Affiliation II. Medizinische Klinik, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Hannes Hahne

Affiliation Chair of Proteomics and Bioanalytics, Center of Life and Food Sciences, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Pawel K. Mazur

Current address: Department of Genetics and Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, California, United States of America

Affiliation II. Medizinische Klinik, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Marija Trajkovic-Arsic

Affiliation II. Medizinische Klinik, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Stefan Maier

Affiliations Chair of Proteomics and Bioanalytics, Center of Life and Food Sciences, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, Institute of Pathology, Helmholtz Center Munich - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Irene Esposito

Affiliations Institute of Pathology, Helmholtz Center Munich - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Pathology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Evdokia Kalideris

Affiliation II. Medizinische Klinik, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Christoph W. Michalski

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Jörg Kleeff

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Sandra Rauser

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Helmholtz Center Munich - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Roland M. Schmid

Affiliation II. Medizinische Klinik, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Bernhard Küster

Affiliations Chair of Proteomics and Bioanalytics, Center of Life and Food Sciences, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich, Munich, Germany

Axel Walch

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Helmholtz Center Munich - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Jens T. Siveke

jens.siveke@lrz.tum.de

Affiliation II. Medizinische Klinik, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BMG RMS AW BK JTS. Performed the experiments: BMG HH PKM MT-A SM EK. Analyzed the data: BMG HH IE SR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CWM JK. Wrote the paper: BMG JTS.