About the Authors

Lunda Gu

Affiliation Institute for Cardiovascular Physiology, Medical Faculty, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany

Juliane Hitzel

Affiliations Institute for Cardiovascular Physiology, Medical Faculty, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany, German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner site RheinMain, Frankfurt, Germany

Franziska Moll

Affiliations Institute for Cardiovascular Physiology, Medical Faculty, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany, German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner site RheinMain, Frankfurt, Germany

Christoph Kruse

Affiliations Institute for Cardiovascular Physiology, Medical Faculty, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany, German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner site RheinMain, Frankfurt, Germany

Randa Abdel Malik

Affiliations Institute of Vascular Signalling, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany, German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner site RheinMain, Frankfurt, Germany

Jens Preussner

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany, German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner site RheinMain, Frankfurt, Germany

Mario Looso

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany, German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner site RheinMain, Frankfurt, Germany

Matthias S. Leisegang

Affiliations Institute for Cardiovascular Physiology, Medical Faculty, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany, German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner site RheinMain, Frankfurt, Germany

Dieter Steinhilber

Affiliation Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry/ZAFES, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Ralf P. Brandes

Affiliations Institute for Cardiovascular Physiology, Medical Faculty, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany, German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner site RheinMain, Frankfurt, Germany

Christian Fork

fork@vrc.uni-frankfurt.de

Affiliations Institute for Cardiovascular Physiology, Medical Faculty, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany, German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner site RheinMain, Frankfurt, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no relevant financial, personal or professional relationships to disclose which could be perceived as a conflict of interest or as potentially influencing or biasing the authors’ work.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CF LG JH FM CK RAM JP ML MSL DS RPB. Performed the experiments: CF LG JH FM CK RAM JP ML MSL DS RPB. Analyzed the data: CF LG JH FM CK RAM JP ML MSL DS RPB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CF LG JH FM CK RAM JP ML MSL DS RPB. Wrote the paper: CF LG JH FM CK RAM JP ML MSL DS RPB.