About the Authors

Peter U. Ardelt

Peter.Ardelt@usb.ch

Affiliations Department of Urology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology, Medical School, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Department of Urology, Bavarian Julius Maximilians-University Medical School, Würzburg, Germany

Jan Ebbing

Affiliation Department of Urology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Fabian Adams

Affiliation Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology, Medical School, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Cora Reiss

Affiliation Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Wadih Arap

Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology and Division of Molecular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Renata Pasqualini

Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology and Division of Molecular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Alexander Bachmann

Affiliation Department of Urology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Ulrich Wetterauer

Affiliation Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology, Medical School, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Hubertus Riedmiller

Affiliation Department of Urology, Bavarian Julius Maximilians-University Medical School, Würzburg, Germany

Burkhard Kneitz

Affiliation Department of Urology, Bavarian Julius Maximilians-University Medical School, Würzburg, Germany

Competing Interests

This work was partly funded by an unrestricted research grant to the first author (P. A.) by medac, Germany. None of the authors was employed by medac, holds patents, products in development or marketed products by this company. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BK PA. Performed the experiments: PA CR. Analyzed the data: PA BK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WA RP FA HR. Wrote the paper: WA RP BK JE AB UW.