About the Authors

Niklas Burblies

Contributed equally to this work with: Niklas Burblies, Jennifer Schulze

Affiliations Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Hanover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Hanover, Germany

Jennifer Schulze

Contributed equally to this work with: Niklas Burblies, Jennifer Schulze

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Hanover, Germany

Hans-Christoph Schwarz

Affiliations Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Hanover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Hanover, Germany

Katharina Kranz

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Hanover, Germany

Damian Motz

Affiliation Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Hanover, Germany

Carla Vogt

Affiliation Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Hanover, Germany

Thomas Lenarz

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Hanover, Germany

Athanasia Warnecke

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Hanover, Germany

Peter Behrens

Peter.Behrens@acb.uni-hannover.de

Affiliations Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Hanover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Hanover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NB JS KK DM CV TL AW PB. Performed the experiments: NB DM JS. Analyzed the data: NB JS DM AW PB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NB JS DM AW PB. Wrote the paper: NB JS HCS DM CV AW PB. Fruitful discussion: KK TL. Scientific advisory: KK TL. Supervision of the research activity: KK TL.