About the Authors

Christina Katharina Weisheit

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Christina.Weisheit@ukbonn.de

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Jan Lukas Kleiner

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Maria Belen Rodrigo

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Sven Thomas Niepmann

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Heart Center Bonn, Clinic for Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Sebastian Zimmer

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Heart Center Bonn, Clinic for Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Georg Daniel Duerr

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Clinical Centre Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Mark Coburn

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Christian Kurts

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Immunology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Stilla Frede

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Lars Eichhorn

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Competing Interests

This study was supported by the Flow-cytometry Core Facility and by the House for Experimental Therapy (HET) of the medical faculty of Bonn University. C. K. W. and L. E. were supported by the Else Kröner-Forschungskolleg Bonn and BONFOR in Bonn; C. K. W., S. Z. and C. K. are funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Grant No. 397484323 – Project number 426093965. C. K. and S.Z. are members of the excellence cluster ‘‘ImmunoSensation’’ at Bonn University. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.