About the Authors

Amit Shrestha

Affiliation German Center for Lung Research, Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary System, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Giessen, Hessen, Germany

Gianni Carraro

Affiliation Lung and Regenerative Medicine Institutes, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Elie El Agha

Affiliation German Center for Lung Research, Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary System, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Giessen, Hessen, Germany

Regina Mukhametshina

Affiliation German Center for Lung Research, Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary System, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Giessen, Hessen, Germany

Cho-Ming Chao

Affiliation German Center for Lung Research, Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary System, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Giessen, Hessen, Germany

Albert Rizvanov

Affiliation Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Kazan, Russian Federation

Guillermo Barreto

Affiliations LOEWE Research Group Lung Cancer Epigenetic Max Plank Institute, Bad Nauheim, Germany, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Giessen, Germany

Saverio Bellusci

Saverio.Bellusci@innere.med.uni-giessen.de

Affiliations German Center for Lung Research, Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary System, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Giessen, Hessen, Germany, Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Kazan, Russian Federation, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Giessen, Germany, Developmental Biology Program, Division of Surgery, Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS GC EEA RM AR GB SB. Performed the experiments: AS RM CMC. Analyzed the data: AS GC CMC RM AR GB SB. Wrote the paper: AS EEA SB.