About the Authors

Alexander Krohn

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Krohn, Theresa Ahrens

Affiliation Department of Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany

Theresa Ahrens

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Krohn, Theresa Ahrens

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany, University of Freiburg, Faculty of Biology, Freiburg, Germany

Arzu Yalcin

Affiliation Department of Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany

Till Plönes

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Witten/Herdecke, Köln, Germany

Julius Wehrle

Affiliation Department of Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany

Sanaz Taromi

Affiliation Department of Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany

Stefan Wollner

Affiliation Department of Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany

Marie Follo

Affiliation Department of Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany

Thomas Brabletz

Affiliation Department for Visceral Surgery, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany

Sendurai A. Mani

Affiliation Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Rainer Claus

Affiliation Department of Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany

Björn Hackanson

Affiliation Department of Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany

Meike Burger

meike.burger@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Affiliations Department of Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany, University Furtwangen, Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences, Campus VS-Schwenningen, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK TA TB SM RC BH MB. Performed the experiments: AK TA AY TP ST SW MF. Analyzed the data: AK TA JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BH RC. Wrote the paper: AK TA MB.