About the Authors

Norbert Koch

norbert.koch@uni-bonn.de

Affiliation Division of Immunobiology, Institute of Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Martin Zacharias

Affiliation Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Angelika König

Affiliation Division of Immunobiology, Institute of Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Sebastian Temme

Affiliation Division of Immunobiology, Institute of Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Jürgen Neumann

Affiliation Division of Immunobiology, Institute of Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Sebastian Springer

Affiliation Molecular Life Science Center, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NK MZ AK ST JN SS. Performed the experiments: NA AK ST. Analyzed the data: NK. Wrote the paper: NK SS. Performed biochemical experiments: NK AK ST. Constructed DNA plasmids: JN. Modelled MHCII-Ii structure: MZ.