About the Authors

Holger H. H. Erb

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Julia Bodenbender

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Florian Handle

Roles Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Tamara Diehl

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Lukas Donix

Roles Investigation, Software

Affiliations Department of Urology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Dresden, Germany

Igor Tsaur

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Martin Gleave

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Vancouver Prostate Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Axel Haferkamp

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Johannes Huber

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Susanne Fuessel

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Eva Juengel

Contributed equally to this work with: Eva Juengel, Zoran Culig, Christian Thomas

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Zoran Culig

Contributed equally to this work with: Eva Juengel, Zoran Culig, Christian Thomas

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Experimental Urology, Department of Urology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Christian Thomas

Contributed equally to this work with: Eva Juengel, Zoran Culig, Christian Thomas

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

christian.thomas@uniklinikum-dresden.de

Affiliation Department of Urology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following competing interests: This study was funded by Astellas Pharma. CT and ZC have received the research grant DE72-RG36. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare.