About the Authors

Birgit Berkenkamp

Contributed equally to this work with: Birgit Berkenkamp, Nathan Susnik

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Nephrology and Gastroenterology, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Nathan Susnik

Contributed equally to this work with: Birgit Berkenkamp, Nathan Susnik

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Arpita Baisantry

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Nephrology and Gastroenterology, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Inna Kuznetsova

Affiliations Department of Pediatric Nephrology and Gastroenterology, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany, Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Christoph Jacobi

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Nephrology and Gastroenterology, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Inga Sörensen-Zender

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Verena Broecker

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Hermann Haller

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Anette Melk

schmitt.roland@mh-hannover.de (RS); melk.anette@mh-hannover.de (AM)

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Nephrology and Gastroenterology, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Roland Schmitt

schmitt.roland@mh-hannover.de (RS); melk.anette@mh-hannover.de (AM)

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HH AM RS. Performed the experiments: BB NS AB IK CJ IS VB. Analyzed the data: BB NS AB CJ IS AM RS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VB. Wrote the paper: BB NS AM RS.