About the Authors

Martin Kolisek

martink@zedat.fu-berlin.de (MK); roentgen@fbn-dummerstorf.de (MSR)

Affiliation Institute of Veterinary-Physiology, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Gerhard Sponder

Affiliation Institute of Veterinary-Physiology, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Lucia Mastrototaro

Affiliation Institute of Veterinary-Physiology, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Alina Smorodchenko

Affiliation Institute of Physiology, Pathophysiology and Biophysics, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Pierre Launay

Affiliation INSERM, U699, Paris, France

Juergen Vormann

Affiliation Institute of Prevention and Nutrition, Ismaning, Germany

Monika Schweigel-Röntgen

martink@zedat.fu-berlin.de (MK); roentgen@fbn-dummerstorf.de (MSR)

Affiliation Institute for Nutritional Physiology “Oskar Kellner”, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany

Competing Interests

MK, JV & MSR are discoverers on the patent application based on the data presented in this manuscript. It is currently submitted for a patent search by IPA-MV AG (no number assigned yet). Responsible Inovations-manager Mr. Tobias Parikh (T.Parikh@pva-mv.de). Dr. Mandana Rezwan (Dualsystems Biotech AG) co-operated with the construction of the cell lines for this study. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MK MSR . Performed the experiments: MK GS LM AS PL JV MSR . Analyzed the data: MK GS LM AS PL JV MSR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MK MSR. Wrote the paper: MK MSR.