About the Authors

Anna C. Luca

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna C. Luca, Sabrina Mersch

Affiliation Department of Surgery A, Heinrich-Heine University and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Sabrina Mersch

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna C. Luca, Sabrina Mersch

Affiliation Department of Surgery A, Heinrich-Heine University and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

René Deenen

Affiliation Biological and Medical Research Center (BMFZ), Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Stephan Schmidt

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II, Heinrich-Heine University and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Isabelle Messner

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Heinrich-Heine University and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Karl-Ludwig Schäfer

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Heinrich-Heine University and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Stephan E. Baldus

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Heinrich-Heine University and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Wolfgang Huckenbeck

Affiliation Institute of Forensic Medicine, Heinrich-Heine University and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Roland P. Piekorz

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II, Heinrich-Heine University and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Wolfram T. Knoefel

Affiliation Department of Surgery A, Heinrich-Heine University and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Andreas Krieg

andreas.krieg@med.uni-duesseldorf.de (AK); nikolas.stoecklein@uni-duesseldorf.de (NHS)

Affiliation Department of Surgery A, Heinrich-Heine University and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Nikolas H. Stoecklein

andreas.krieg@med.uni-duesseldorf.de (AK); nikolas.stoecklein@uni-duesseldorf.de (NHS)

Affiliation Department of Surgery A, Heinrich-Heine University and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Shared first authorship: AL SM. Shared senior authorship: NHS AK. Conceived and designed the experiments: NHS AK AL WTK RD. Performed the experiments: AL SM RD SS IM WH. Analyzed the data: NHS AK AL SM RD KLS SEB RP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NHS AK RD KLS WTK SEB RP. Wrote the paper: NHS AK AL.