About the Authors

Franz Puttur

Contributed equally to this work with: Franz Puttur, Catharina Arnold-Schrauf

Affiliation Institute for Infection Immunology, 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

Catharina Arnold-Schrauf

Contributed equally to this work with: Franz Puttur, Catharina Arnold-Schrauf

Affiliation Institute for Infection Immunology, 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

Katharina Lahl

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology and Vascular Biology, Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Gulhas Solmaz

Affiliation Institute for Infection Immunology, 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

Marc Lindenberg

Affiliation Institute for Infection Immunology, 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

Christian Thomas Mayer

Affiliation Institute for Infection Immunology, 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

Melanie Gohmert

Affiliation Institute for Infection Immunology, 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

Maxine Swallow

Affiliation Institute for Infection Immunology, 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

Christopher van Helt

Affiliation Institute for Infection Immunology, 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

Heike Schmitt

Affiliation Division of Genetics, Department of Biology, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Lars Nitschke

Affiliation Division of Genetics, Department of Biology, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Bart N. Lambrecht

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation and Mucosal Immunology, Department of Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB, Ghent, Belgium

Roland Lang

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Martin Messerle

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Medical School Hannover (MHH), Hannover, Germany

Tim Sparwasser

Tim.Sparwasser@twincore.de

Affiliation Institute for Infection Immunology, 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: FP CAS KL TS. Performed the experiments: FP CAS KL GS ML MG MS CvH. Analyzed the data: FP CAS GS ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LN HS BNL RL MM. Wrote the paper: CAS FP CTM TS. Equally contributed: FP CAS.