About the Authors

Alexander Kleger

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Kleger, Christiane Loebnitz

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Max-Planck-Research Department on Stem Cell Aging, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Christiane Loebnitz

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Kleger, Christiane Loebnitz

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Ganesh V. Pusapati

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Milena Armacki

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

Martin Müller

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Stefan Tümpel

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Medicine and Max-Planck-Research Department on Stem Cell Aging, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Anett Illing

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Medicine and Max-Planck-Research Department on Stem Cell Aging, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Daniel Hartmann

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Medicine and Max-Planck-Research Department on Stem Cell Aging, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Department of Surgery, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany

Cornelia Brunner

Affiliation Institute of Physiological Chemistry, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Stefan Liebau

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Karl L. Rudolph

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Medicine and Max-Planck-Research Department on Stem Cell Aging, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Guido Adler

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Thomas Seufferlein

thomas.seufferlein@uk-halle.de

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK GVP TS. Performed the experiments: AK CL GVP MA ST CB. Analyzed the data: AK GVP SL GA TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK MM AI DH KLR TS. Wrote the paper: AK GVP TS.