About the Authors

Regina Brockmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Regina Brockmann, Andreas Beyer

Affiliations Theoretical Systems Biology, Leibniz Institute for Age Research, Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena, Germany , Fachbereich Biologie/Chemie, AG Genetik, Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Andreas Beyer

Contributed equally to this work with: Regina Brockmann, Andreas Beyer

Affiliations Theoretical Systems Biology, Leibniz Institute for Age Research, Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena, Germany , Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jürgen J Heinisch

Affiliation Fachbereich Biologie/Chemie, AG Genetik, Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Thomas Wilhelm

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: wilhelm@fli-leibniz.de

Affiliation Theoretical Systems Biology, Leibniz Institute for Age Research, Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

AB and TW conceived and designed the experiments. RB performed the experiments. RB, AB, and TW analyzed the data. RB, AB, JJH, and TW wrote the paper.