About the Authors

Meik Neufurth

Affiliation ERC Advanced Investigator Grant Research Group at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Duesbergweg 6, D-55128 Mainz, Germany

Xiaohong Wang

wmueller@uni-mainz.de (WEGM); wang013@uni-mainz.de (XHW)

Affiliation ERC Advanced Investigator Grant Research Group at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Duesbergweg 6, D-55128 Mainz, Germany

Emad Tolba

Affiliation ERC Advanced Investigator Grant Research Group at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Duesbergweg 6, D-55128 Mainz, Germany

Bernhard Dorweiler

Affiliation Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Langenbeckstraße 1, D-55131 Mainz, Germany

Heinz C. Schröder

Affiliation ERC Advanced Investigator Grant Research Group at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Duesbergweg 6, D-55128 Mainz, Germany

Thorben Link

Affiliation ERC Advanced Investigator Grant Research Group at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Duesbergweg 6, D-55128 Mainz, Germany

Bärbel Diehl-Seifert

Affiliation NanotecMARIN GmbH, Duesbergweg 6, D-55128 Mainz, Germany

Werner E. G. Müller

wmueller@uni-mainz.de (WEGM); wang013@uni-mainz.de (XHW)

Affiliation ERC Advanced Investigator Grant Research Group at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Duesbergweg 6, D-55128 Mainz, Germany

Competing Interests

The involvement of the author BDS does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MN XHW ET BD WEGM. Performed the experiments: MN ET TL BDS. Analyzed the data: MN XHW ET BD HCS WEGM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MN ET TL BDS. Wrote the paper: MN XHW BD HCS WEGM.