About the Authors

G-Andre Banat

Affiliation Internal Medicine, University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Giessen, Germany

Aleksandra Tretyn

Affiliation Department of Lung Development and Remodeling, Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany

Soni Savai Pullamsetti

Affiliations Internal Medicine, University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Giessen, Germany, Department of Lung Development and Remodeling, Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany

Jochen Wilhelm

Affiliation Internal Medicine, University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Giessen, Germany

Andreas Weigert

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry I, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Catherine Olesch

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry I, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Katharina Ebel

Affiliation Department of Lung Development and Remodeling, Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany

Thorsten Stiewe

Affiliation Molecular Oncology, Philipps-University, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Marburg, Germany

Friedrich Grimminger

Affiliation Internal Medicine, University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Giessen, Germany

Werner Seeger

Affiliations Internal Medicine, University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Giessen, Germany, Department of Lung Development and Remodeling, Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany

Ludger Fink

Affiliation Institute of Pathology and Cytology, UEGP, Wetzlar, Germany

Rajkumar Savai

rajkumar.savai@mpi-bn.mpg.de

Affiliations Internal Medicine, University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Giessen, Germany, Department of Lung Development and Remodeling, Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GB SP JW AW RS. Performed the experiments: GB AT CO KE. Analyzed the data: GB SP JW TS FG WS LF RS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GB TS FG WS LF RS. Wrote the paper: GB AT SP JW AW KE TS FG WS LF RS.