About the Authors

Nikolai Hecker

Affiliations Center for Bioinformatics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Institute of Physiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Carsten Stephan

Affiliations Department of Urology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Berlin Institute for Urologic Research, Berlin, Germany

Hans-Joachim Mollenkopf

Affiliation Core Facility Genomics/Microarray, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Klaus Jung

Affiliations Department of Urology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Berlin Institute for Urologic Research, Berlin, Germany

Robert Preissner

Affiliation Institute of Physiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Hellmuth-A. Meyer

hellmuth.meyer@charite.de

Affiliations Institute of Physiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Urology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NH HAM. Performed the experiments: HJM KJ HAM. Analyzed the data: NH HAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CS HJM KJ RP. Wrote the paper: NH KJ HAM. Critical revision of manuscript: NH CS HJM KJ RP HAM. Final approval of manuscript: NH CS HJM KJ RP HAM.