About the Authors

Simon Reiss

Contributed equally to this work with: Simon Reiss, Christian Harak

Current address: Olympus Europa Holding GmbH, Micro-Imaging Solutions Division, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Medical Oncology, Hamamatsu TIGA-Center (BIOQUANT), BQ 0010, Heidelberg, Germany.

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

Christian Harak

Contributed equally to this work with: Simon Reiss, Christian Harak

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

Inés Romero-Brey

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

Danijela Radujkovic

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

Rahel Klein

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

Alessia Ruggieri

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

Ilka Rebhan

Current address: Department of Medical Oncology, Hamamatsu TIGA-Center (BIOQUANT), BQ 0010, Heidelberg, Germany.

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

Ralf Bartenschlager

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

Volker Lohmann

volker_lohmann@med.uni-heidelberg.de

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SR CH IRB RB VL. Performed the experiments: SR CH IRB DR RK AR IR. Analyzed the data: SR CH IRB DR RK AR IR RB VL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IRB RB IR AR RK. Wrote the paper: SR CH VL.