About the Authors
- Viktoria Stab
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Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Virology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
- Sandra Nitsche
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Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Virology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
- Thomas Niezold
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Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Virology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
- Michael Storcksdieck genannt Bonsmann
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Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Virology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
- Andrea Wiechers
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Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Virology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
- Bettina Tippler
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Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Virology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
- Drew Hannaman
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Affiliation Ichor Medical Systems, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Christina Ehrhardt
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Affiliation Institute of Molecular Virology, Centre of Molecular Biology of Inflammation, Westfaelische Wilhelms University, Muenster, Germany
- Klaus Überla
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Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Virology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
- Thomas Grunwald
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Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Grunwald, Matthias Tenbusch
Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Virology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
- Matthias Tenbusch
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Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Grunwald, Matthias Tenbusch
* E-mail: matthias.tenbusch@rub.de
Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Virology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Competing Interests
T. Grunwald and K. Überla share an international patent application for the codon-optimized RSV-F sequence. Patent name: RSV-F and its use and number WO2007EP11090 20071218. D. Hannaman is employee of the company Ichor Medical Systems. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KÜ TG MT. Performed the experiments: VS SN TN MSgB AW BT. Analyzed the data: VS KÜ TG MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DH CE. Wrote the paper: VS DH CE KÜ TG MT.