About the Authors

Vanessa Kruse

Contributed equally to this work with: Vanessa Kruse, Carina Hamann

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Carina Hamann

Contributed equally to this work with: Vanessa Kruse, Carina Hamann

Affiliations Department of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), Partner site Göttingen, Germany

Sebastian Monecke

Affiliations Department of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), Partner site Göttingen, Germany

Lukas Cyganek

Affiliations Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), Partner site Göttingen, Germany

Leslie Elsner

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Daniela Hübscher

Affiliations Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), Partner site Göttingen, Germany

Lutz Walter

Affiliation Primate Genetics Laboratory, German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany

Katrin Streckfuss-Bömeke

Affiliations Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), Partner site Göttingen, Germany

Kaomei Guan

rdresse@gwdg.de (RD); kguan@med.uni-goettingen.de (KG)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), Partner site Göttingen, Germany

Ralf Dressel

rdresse@gwdg.de (RD); kguan@med.uni-goettingen.de (KG)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), Partner site Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KG RD. Performed the experiments: VK CH SM LC LE DH KSB RD. Analyzed the data: VK CH SM LC LW KSB KG RD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LW. Wrote the paper: RD.