About the Authors

Madlen Loebel

Contributed equally to this work with: Madlen Loebel, Kristin Strohschein

Madlen.loebel@charite.de

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow, Berlin, Germany

Kristin Strohschein

Contributed equally to this work with: Madlen Loebel, Kristin Strohschein

Affiliations Institute for Medical Immunology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow, Berlin, Germany, Julius Wolff Institute, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow, Berlin, Germany

Carolin Giannini

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow, Berlin, Germany

Uwe Koelsch

Affiliation Labor Berlin GmbH, Immunology Department, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow, Berlin, Germany

Sandra Bauer

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow, Berlin, Germany

Cornelia Doebis

Affiliation Institute for Medical Diagnostics, Berlin, Germany

Sybill Thomas

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow, Berlin, Germany

Nadine Unterwalder

Affiliation Labor Berlin GmbH, Immunology Department, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow, Berlin, Germany

Volker von Baehr

Affiliation Institute for Medical Diagnostics, Berlin, Germany

Petra Reinke

Affiliations Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany, Department Nephrology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany

Michael Knops

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow, Berlin, Germany

Leif G. Hanitsch

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow, Berlin, Germany

Christian Meisel

Affiliations Institute for Medical Immunology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow, Berlin, Germany, Labor Berlin GmbH, Immunology Department, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow, Berlin, Germany

Hans-Dieter Volk

Affiliations Institute for Medical Immunology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany

Carmen Scheibenbogen

Affiliations Institute for Medical Immunology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML KS HDV CS. Performed the experiments: ML KS SB ST. Analyzed the data: ML KS CG SB CS MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CG UK NU LH CD VvB CM PR. Wrote the paper: ML KS CS HDV.