About the Authors

Sabine Stegemann

Affiliations Otto-von-Guericke University, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Magdeburg, Germany, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Research group Immuneregulation, Braunschweig, Germany

Sofia Dahlberg

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet & the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Stockholm, Sweden

Andrea Kröger

Affiliation Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Department of Gene Regulation and Differentiation, Braunschweig, Germany

Marcus Gereke

Affiliation Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Research group Immuneregulation, Braunschweig, Germany

Dunja Bruder

Affiliation Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Research group Immuneregulation, Braunschweig, Germany

Birgitta Henriques-Normark

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet & the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Stockholm, Sweden

Matthias Gunzer

Matthias.gunzer@med.ovgu.de

Affiliation Otto-von-Guericke University, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Magdeburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MG. Performed the experiments: SS SD AK MG. Analyzed the data: SS SD AK MG DB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DB. Wrote the paper: BHN MG. Supervised experiments: DB BHN.