About the Authors

Benno Wölk

Contributed equally to this work with: Benno Wölk, Claudia Trautwein

Affiliations Department of Medicine II, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Claudia Trautwein

Contributed equally to this work with: Benno Wölk, Claudia Trautwein

Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Benjamin Büchele

Affiliation Department of Medicine II, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Nadine Kersting

Affiliation Department of Medicine II, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Hubert E. Blum

Affiliation Department of Medicine II, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Hans-Georg Rammensee

Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Andreas Cerny

Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology and Clinical Immunology/Allergology, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Stefan Stevanovic

Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Darius Moradpour

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Medicine II, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Volker Brass

volker.brass@uniklinik-freiburg.de

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Medicine II, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BW CT NK HEB HR AC SS DM VB. Performed the experiments: BW CT BB NK SS VB. Analyzed the data: BW CT BB NK HEB HR AC SS DM VB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BW CT NK HEB HR AC SS DM VB. Wrote the paper: BW CT BB NK HEB AC SS DM VB.