About the Authors

Luka Cicin-Sain

luka.cicin-sain@helmholtz-hzi.de (LCS); nikolich@email.arizona.edu (JNZ)

Affiliations Department of Vaccinology and Applied Microbiology, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute and the Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

James D. Brien

Affiliations Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute and the Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jennifer L. Uhrlaub

Affiliations Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute and the Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Immunobiology and the Arizona Center on Aging, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Anja Drabig

Affiliation Department of Vaccinology and Applied Microbiology, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Thomas F. Marandu

Affiliation Department of Vaccinology and Applied Microbiology, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Janko Nikolich-Zugich

luka.cicin-sain@helmholtz-hzi.de (LCS); nikolich@email.arizona.edu (JNZ)

Affiliations Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute and the Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Immunobiology and the Arizona Center on Aging, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LCS JDB JNZ. Performed the experiments: LCS JDB JLU AD TFM. Analyzed the data: LCS JLU JNZ. Wrote the paper: LCS JNZ.