About the Authors

Jorge Boucas

Contributed equally to this work with: Jorge Boucas, Christian Fritz

christian.reinhardt@uk-koeln.de (HCR); jorge.boucas@age.mpg.de (JB)

Affiliations Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Weyertal 115B, 50931, Cologne, Germany, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Response in Aging-Associated Diseases, University of Cologne, Weyertal 115B, 50931, Cologne, Germany

Christian Fritz

Contributed equally to this work with: Jorge Boucas, Christian Fritz

Affiliations Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Weyertal 115B, 50931, Cologne, Germany, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Response in Aging-Associated Diseases, University of Cologne, Weyertal 115B, 50931, Cologne, Germany

Anna Schmitt

Affiliations Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Weyertal 115B, 50931, Cologne, Germany, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Response in Aging-Associated Diseases, University of Cologne, Weyertal 115B, 50931, Cologne, Germany

Arina Riabinska

Affiliations Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Weyertal 115B, 50931, Cologne, Germany, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Response in Aging-Associated Diseases, University of Cologne, Weyertal 115B, 50931, Cologne, Germany

Lisa Thelen

Affiliations Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Weyertal 115B, 50931, Cologne, Germany, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Response in Aging-Associated Diseases, University of Cologne, Weyertal 115B, 50931, Cologne, Germany

Martin Peifer

Affiliations Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Department of Translational Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Uschi Leeser

Affiliations Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Weyertal 115B, 50931, Cologne, Germany, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Response in Aging-Associated Diseases, University of Cologne, Weyertal 115B, 50931, Cologne, Germany

Peter Nuernberg

Affiliations Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Response in Aging-Associated Diseases, University of Cologne, Weyertal 115B, 50931, Cologne, Germany, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Cologne Center for Genomics (CCG), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Janine Altmueller

Affiliation Cologne Center for Genomics (CCG), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Matthias Gaestel

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Christoph Dieterich

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Computational RNA Biology and Ageing, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Joseph-Stelzmann Straße 9b, 50913, Cologne, Germany

H. Christian Reinhardt

christian.reinhardt@uk-koeln.de (HCR); jorge.boucas@age.mpg.de (JB)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Weyertal 115B, 50931, Cologne, Germany, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Response in Aging-Associated Diseases, University of Cologne, Weyertal 115B, 50931, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JB HCR. Performed the experiments: JB CF AS UL AR LT. Analyzed the data: JB MP CD HCR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JA MG PN CD. Wrote the paper: JB HCR.