About the Authors

Friederike Behler-Janbeck

‡ These authors share first and senior authorship

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pneumology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Tomotsugu Takano

‡ These authors share first and senior authorship

Affiliation Division of Molecular Immunology, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Regina Maus

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pneumology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Jennifer Stolper

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pneumology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Danny Jonigk

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

Meritxell Tort Tarrés

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pneumology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Thomas Fuehner

Affiliation Clinic for Pneumology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Antje Prasse

Affiliation Clinic for Pneumology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Tobias Welte

Affiliations Clinic for Pneumology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, German Center for Lung Research, partner site BREATH, Hannover, Germany

Mattie S. M. Timmer

Affiliation School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Bridget L. Stocker

Affiliation School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Yoichi Nakanishi

Affiliation Research Institute for Diseases of the Chest, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Tomofumi Miyamoto

Affiliation Department of Natural Products Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Sho Yamasaki

‡ These authors share first and senior authorship

Affiliation Division of Molecular Immunology, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Ulrich A. Maus

Maus.Ulrich@mh-hannover.de

‡ These authors share first and senior authorship

Affiliations Department of Experimental Pneumology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, German Center for Lung Research, partner site BREATH, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: UAM SY. Data curation: FBJ TT. Formal analysis: FBJ TT. Funding acquisition: SY TW UAM. Investigation: FBJ TT RM JS TT TF AP. Methodology: FBJ TT RM JS MTT BLS YN TM SY UAM DJ MSMT. Project administration: SY UAM. Resources: TT MTT BLS SY TF AP. Supervision: SY UAM. Validation: FBJ TT RM JS TM SY UAM. Writing – original draft: FBJ TT TW TM SY UAM. Writing – review & editing: FBJ TT TW TM SY UAM.