About the Authors

Yuxi Feng

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuxi Feng, Yumei Wang

Affiliation 5th Medical Department, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Yumei Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuxi Feng, Yumei Wang

Affiliation 5th Medical Department, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Li Li

Affiliation Medical Research Center, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Liang Wu

Affiliation 5th Medical Department, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Sigrid Hoffmann

Affiliation Medical Research Center, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Norbert Gretz

Affiliation Medical Research Center, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Hans-Peter Hammes

hans-peter.hammes@med5.ma.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliation 5th Medical Department, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YF SH NG HPH. Performed the experiments: YF YW LL LW. Analyzed the data: YF YW LL LW SH NG HPH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LL SH NG. Wrote the paper: YF YW HPH.