About the Authors

Fei Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Fei Cheng, Michael Torzewski

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Michael Torzewski

Contributed equally to this work with: Fei Cheng, Michael Torzewski

michael.torzewski@rbk.de

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Robert Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany

Adriana Degreif

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Heidi Rossmann

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Antje Canisius

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Karl J. Lackner

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FC MT HR KJL. Performed the experiments: FC MT AD AC. Analyzed the data: FC MT HR KJL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MT HR KJL. Wrote the paper: FC MT.