About the Authors

Etmar Bulk

Contributed equally to this work with: Etmar Bulk, Jun Yu, Antje Hascher

Affiliations Department of Medicine A – Hematology, Oncology, Pneumology, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany, Institute of Physiology II, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Jun Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Etmar Bulk, Jun Yu, Antje Hascher

Affiliations Department of Medicine A – Hematology, Oncology, Pneumology, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany, Center of Teaching Experiment, School of Basic Medical Science, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Antje Hascher

Contributed equally to this work with: Etmar Bulk, Jun Yu, Antje Hascher

Affiliation Department of Medicine A – Hematology, Oncology, Pneumology, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Steffen Koschmieder

Affiliation Department of Medicine A – Hematology, Oncology, Pneumology, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Rainer Wiewrodt

Affiliation Department of Medicine A – Hematology, Oncology, Pneumology, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Utz Krug

Affiliation Department of Medicine A – Hematology, Oncology, Pneumology, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Bernd Timmermann

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Alessandro Marra

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Niels-Stensen-Hospital Ostercappeln, Ostercappeln, Germany

Ludger Hillejan

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Niels-Stensen-Hospital Ostercappeln, Ostercappeln, Germany

Karsten Wiebe

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Wolfgang E. Berdel

Affiliation Department of Medicine A – Hematology, Oncology, Pneumology, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Albrecht Schwab

Affiliation Institute of Physiology II, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Carsten Müller-Tidow

muellerc@uni-muenster.de

Affiliation Department of Medicine A – Hematology, Oncology, Pneumology, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EB JY CMT. Performed the experiments: EB JY AH SK RW UK BT AM LH KW WEB AS. Analyzed the data: EB JY AH UK CMT. Wrote the paper: EB JY AH UK CMT.