About the Authors

Shun Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Shun Lu, Shuya Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

shun.lu@mpi-bn.mpg.de (SL); stefan.offermanns@mpi-bn.mpg.de (SO)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany

Shuya Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Shun Lu, Shuya Liu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany

Astrid Wietelmann

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Scientific Service Group Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany

Baktybek Kojonazarov

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany

Ann Atzberger

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Flow Cytometry Service Facility, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany

Cong Tang

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Current address: Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany

Ralph Theo Schermuly

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany

Hermann-Josef Gröne

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Pathology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Stefan Offermanns

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

shun.lu@mpi-bn.mpg.de (SL); stefan.offermanns@mpi-bn.mpg.de (SO)

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany, Medical Faculty, J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.