About the Authors

Jens Dernedde

jens.dernedde@charite.de

Affiliation Institut für Laboratoriumsmedizin, Klinische Chemie und Pathobiochemie, Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Christoph Weise

Affiliation Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Eva-Christina Müller

Affiliation Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin-Buch, Germany

Akira Hagiwara

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Tokyo Medical University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Sebastian Bachmann

Affiliation Institut für Vegetative Anatomie, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Mamoru Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Tokyo Medical University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Werner Reutter

Affiliation Institut für Laboratoriumsmedizin, Klinische Chemie und Pathobiochemie, Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Rudolf Tauber

Affiliation Institut für Laboratoriumsmedizin, Klinische Chemie und Pathobiochemie, Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Hans Scherer

Affiliation Klinik für Oto-Rhino-Laryngologie, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JD MS RT SB WR HS CW. Performed the experiments: JD AH SB ECM HS CW. Analyzed the data: JD ECM SB HS CW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JD AH SB ECM MS HS CW. Wrote the paper: JD RT WR HS CW.