About the Authors

Sebastian D. Schuck

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Henrik Mueller

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Frank Kunitz

Affiliation Respiratory Diseases Clinic Heckeshorn, Department of Pneumology, HELIOS Klinikum Emil von Behring, Berlin, Germany

Albert Neher

Affiliation Asklepios Professional Clinic München-Gauting, Centre for Pneumology and Thorax Surgery, Munich, Germany

Harald Hoffmann

Affiliation Asklepios Professional Clinic München-Gauting, Centre for Pneumology and Thorax Surgery, Munich, Germany

Kees L. C. M. Franken

Affiliation Department of Immunohematology & Blood Transfusion/Department of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Dirk Repsilber

Affiliation Research Institute for the Biology of Farm Animals, Genetics and Biometry, Dummerstorf, Germany

Tom H. M. Ottenhoff

Affiliation Department of Immunohematology & Blood Transfusion/Department of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Stefan H. E. Kaufmann

kaufmann@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Marc Jacobsen

Current address: Department of Immunology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SDS MJ. Performed the experiments: SDS HM. Analyzed the data: SDS DR MJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FK AN HH KF DR THMO SHEK. Wrote the paper: SDS THMO SHEK MJ.