About the Authors

Julia Gansler

julia.gansler@biochemie.med.uni-giessen.de (JG); klaus.t.preissner@biochemie.med.uni-giessen.de (KTP)

Affiliation School of Medicine, Institute of Biochemistry, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany

Miriam Jaax

Affiliation Institute for Immunology und Transfusion Medicine, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University, Greifswald, Germany

Silke Leiting

Affiliation School of Medicine, Institute of Biochemistry, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany

Bettina Appel

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University, Greifswald, Germany

Andreas Greinacher

Affiliation Institute for Immunology und Transfusion Medicine, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University, Greifswald, Germany

Silvia Fischer

Affiliation School of Medicine, Institute of Biochemistry, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany

Klaus T. Preissner

julia.gansler@biochemie.med.uni-giessen.de (JG); klaus.t.preissner@biochemie.med.uni-giessen.de (KTP)

Affiliation School of Medicine, Institute of Biochemistry, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JG MJ SL BA AG SF KTP. Performed the experiments: JG SL. Analyzed the data: JG SF KTP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJ BA AG SF KTP. Wrote the paper: JG MJ AG SF KTP.