About the Authors

Sharmila Nair

Affiliation Research Group Innate Immunity and Infection, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Kristin Michaelsen-Preusse

Affiliation Department of Cellular Neurobiology, Technical University Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

Katja Finsterbusch

Affiliation Research Group Innate Immunity and Infection, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Sabine Stegemann-Koniszewski

Affiliation Immune Regulation Group, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Dunja Bruder

Affiliations Immune Regulation Group, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, Infection Immunology Group, Department of Medical Microbiology, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Martina Grashoff

Affiliation Research Group Innate Immunity and Infection, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Martin Korte

Affiliations Department of Cellular Neurobiology, Technical University Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, Research Group Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Mario Köster

Affiliation Department of Gene Regulation and Differentiation, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Ulrich Kalinke

Affiliation Institute for Experimental Infection Research, TWINCORE, Hannover, Germany

Hansjörg Hauser

Affiliation Department of Gene Regulation and Differentiation, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Andrea Kröger

andrea.kroeger@helmholtz-hzi.de

Affiliation Research Group Innate Immunity and Infection, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SN KMP KF SSK MKor HH AK. Performed the experiments: SN KF KMP SSK MG AK. Analyzed the data: SN KF KMP SSK DB MKor MKös UK AK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DB MKor MKös UK. Wrote the paper: SN KMP HH AK.