About the Authors

Sabine Brandt

Contributed equally to this work with: Sabine Brandt, Maik Blißenbach

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Virology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Maik Blißenbach

Contributed equally to this work with: Sabine Brandt, Maik Blißenbach

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Virology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Bastian Grewe

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Virology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Rebecca Konietzny

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Virology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Thomas Grunwald

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Virology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Klaus Überla

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: klaus.ueberla@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Virology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

SB, MB, BG, TG, and KU conceived and designed the experiments and wrote the paper. SB, MB, BG, and RK performed the experiments. All authors analyzed the data. TG contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. TG and KU share senior authorship.