About the Authors

Simone Wüst

Contributed equally to this work with: Simone Wüst, Denise Tischner, Fred Lühder, Holger M. Reichardt

Current address: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Institute for Multiple Sclerosis Research, University of Göttingen and Gemeinnützige Hertie-Stiftung, Göttingen, Germany

Denise Tischner

Contributed equally to this work with: Simone Wüst, Denise Tischner, Fred Lühder, Holger M. Reichardt

Current address: Division of Developmental Immunology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, University of Göttingen Medical School, Göttingen, Germany

Michael John

Affiliation Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Jan P. Tuckermann

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Age Research - Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena, Germany

Christiane Menzfeld

Affiliation Department of Neuropathology, University of Göttingen Medical School, Göttingen, Germany

Uwe-Karsten Hanisch

Affiliation Department of Neuropathology, University of Göttingen Medical School, Göttingen, Germany

Jens van den Brandt

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, University of Göttingen Medical School, Göttingen, Germany

Fred Lühder

Contributed equally to this work with: Simone Wüst, Denise Tischner, Fred Lühder, Holger M. Reichardt

hreichardt@med.uni-goettingen.de (HMR); fred.luehder@med.uni-goettingen.de (FL)

Affiliation Institute for Multiple Sclerosis Research, University of Göttingen and Gemeinnützige Hertie-Stiftung, Göttingen, Germany

Holger M. Reichardt

Contributed equally to this work with: Simone Wüst, Denise Tischner, Fred Lühder, Holger M. Reichardt

hreichardt@med.uni-goettingen.de (HMR); fred.luehder@med.uni-goettingen.de (FL)

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, University of Göttingen Medical School, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JPT FL HMR. Performed the experiments: SW DT MJ CM JvdB. Analyzed the data: SW DT MJ UKH JvdB FL HMR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JPT. Wrote the paper: FL HMR.