About the Authors

Holger Buss

Contributed equally to this work with: Holger Buss, Katja Handschick, Nadine Jurrmann, Pirita Pekkonen

Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Katja Handschick

Contributed equally to this work with: Holger Buss, Katja Handschick, Nadine Jurrmann, Pirita Pekkonen

Affiliation Rudolf-Buchheim-Institute of Pharmacology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Nadine Jurrmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Holger Buss, Katja Handschick, Nadine Jurrmann, Pirita Pekkonen

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Internal Medicine, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

Pirita Pekkonen

Contributed equally to this work with: Holger Buss, Katja Handschick, Nadine Jurrmann, Pirita Pekkonen

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Research Programs Unit, Genome-Scale Biology, Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Knut Beuerlein

Affiliation Rudolf-Buchheim-Institute of Pharmacology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Helmut Müller

Affiliation Rudolf-Buchheim-Institute of Pharmacology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Robin Wait

Affiliation The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology Division, ARC Building, Charing Cross Campus, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Jeremy Saklatvala

Affiliation The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology Division, ARC Building, Charing Cross Campus, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Päivi M. Ojala

Affiliations Institute of Biotechnology and Research Programs Unit, Genome-Scale Biology, Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Foundation for the Finnish Cancer Institute, Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

M. Lienhard Schmitz

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Giessen, Germany

Michael Naumann

Naumann@med.ovgu.de (MN); Michael.Kracht@pharma.med.uni-giessen.de (MK)

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Internal Medicine, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

Michael Kracht

Naumann@med.ovgu.de (MN); Michael.Kracht@pharma.med.uni-giessen.de (MK)

Affiliation Rudolf-Buchheim-Institute of Pharmacology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HB PMO MLS MN MK. Performed the experiments: HB KH NJ PP KB HM RW. Analyzed the data: HB PP KB KH RW JS PMO MLS MN MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RW JS MLS. Wrote the paper: PMO MLS MN MK.