About the Authors

Wei Zhang

wzhang@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Marc Freichel

Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Frank van der Hoeven

Affiliation Transgenic Service, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany

Peter Paul Nawroth

Affiliations Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany

Hugo Katus

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Florian Kälble

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Edgar Zitron

Contributed equally to this work with: Edgar Zitron, Vedat Schwenger

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Vedat Schwenger

Contributed equally to this work with: Edgar Zitron, Vedat Schwenger

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Nephrology, Klinikum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WZ VS EZ FvdH PPN HK. Performed the experiments: WZ VS EZ FvdH MF FK. Analyzed the data: WZ VS EZ FvdH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WZ VS. Wrote the paper: WZ VS MF FK.