About the Authors

Gwendlyn Kollmorgen

Affiliation Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Birgit Bossenmaier

Affiliation Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Gerhard Niederfellner

Affiliation Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Hans-Ulrich Häring

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine IV, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Reiner Lammers

reiner.lammers@med.uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine IV, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

G. Kollmorgen, B. Bossenmaier, and G. Niederfellner are employees of Roche Diagnostics. Roche Diagnostics supported the study by a grant to R. Lammers. R. Lammers shares a patent on CDCP1-specific CUB-antibodies (including CUB1 used in this study) that was licensed to Roche Diagnostics. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BB HH RL. Performed the experiments: GK GN RL. Analyzed the data: GK BB RL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GN RL. Wrote the paper: GK BB RL.