About the Authors

Birte Zurek

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Ida Schoultz

Current address: School of Health and Medical sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, and Department of Surgery, Linköping, Sweden

Andreas Neerincx

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Luisa M. Napolitano

Affiliations Cluster in Biomedicine (CBM), AREA Science Park, Trieste, Italy, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Naples, Italy

Katharina Birkner

Current address: Institute of Cell Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Eveline Bennek

Affiliation Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Gernot Sellge

Affiliation Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Maria Lerm

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, and Department of Surgery, Linköping, Sweden

Germana Meroni

Affiliation Cluster in Biomedicine (CBM), AREA Science Park, Trieste, Italy

Johan D. Söderholm

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, and Department of Surgery, Linköping, Sweden

Thomas A. Kufer

thomas.kufer@uk-koeln.de

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML GM JDS TAK. Performed the experiments: BZ IS AN LMN KB EB. Analyzed the data: GS ML GM JDS TAK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GM GS. Wrote the paper: BZ IS ML GM JDS TAK.