About the Authors

Heidrun Hirner

Current address: Department for Clinical Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Klinikum Grosshadern, Munich, Germany

Affiliation Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Cagatay Günes

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

Joachim Bischof

Affiliation Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Sonja Wolff

Current address: Department of Molecular Oncology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Affiliation Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Arnhild Grothey

Current address: Division of Surgery, Oncology, Reproductive Biology and Anaesthetics, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Affiliation Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Marion Kühl

Affiliation Department of Tumor Virology, Heinrich-Pette-Institute, Leibniz-Center for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Franz Oswald

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

Florian Wegwitz

Affiliation Department of Tumor Virology, Heinrich-Pette-Institute, Leibniz-Center for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Michael R. Bösl

Affiliation Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology Transgenic Mouse Models, Max Planck Institute, Martinsried, Germany

Anna Trauzold

Affiliation Division of Molecular Oncology, Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, CCCNorth, UK S-H, Kiel, Germany

Doris Henne-Bruns

Affiliation Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Christian Peifer

Affiliation Institute for Pharmacy, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Frank Leithäuser

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Wolfgang Deppert

Affiliation Department of Tumor Virology, Heinrich-Pette-Institute, Leibniz-Center for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Uwe Knippschild

uwe.knippschild@uniklinik-ulm.de

Affiliation Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UK WD. Performed the experiments: HH CG SW JB AG MK FW MRB. Analyzed the data: HH CG JB FO CP FW FL WD UK AT. Wrote the paper: HH CG FO CP FL DH-B WD UK. Pathological review: FL.