About the Authors

Romana Ruiss

Affiliation Department of Gene Vectors, Helmholtz-Zentrum, Munich, Germany

Simon Jochum

Affiliation Department of Gene Vectors, Helmholtz-Zentrum, Munich, Germany

Ralph Mocikat

Affiliation Institut für Molekulare Immunologie, Helmholtz-Zentrum, Munich, Germany

Wolfgang Hammerschmidt

Affiliation Department of Gene Vectors, Helmholtz-Zentrum, Munich, Germany

Reinhard Zeidler

Reinhard.Zeidler@med.lmu.de

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WH RZ. Performed the experiments: RR SJ. Analyzed the data: RR RZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RM. Wrote the paper: WH RZ.