About the Authors

Nicolas Menzel

Affiliation Division of Experimental Virology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; a joint venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany

Wolfgang Fischl

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Kathrin Hueging

Affiliation Division of Experimental Virology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; a joint venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany

Dorothea Bankwitz

Affiliation Division of Experimental Virology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; a joint venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany

Anne Frentzen

Affiliation Division of Experimental Virology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; a joint venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany

Sibylle Haid

Affiliation Division of Experimental Virology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; a joint venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany

Juliane Gentzsch

Affiliation Division of Experimental Virology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; a joint venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany

Lars Kaderali

Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics and Biometry (IMB), Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Ralf Bartenschlager

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Thomas Pietschmann

thomas.pietschmann@twincore.de

Affiliation Division of Experimental Virology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; a joint venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NM RB TP. Performed the experiments: NM WF KH DB AF SH. Analyzed the data: NM LK RB TP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JG. Wrote the paper: NM TP.