About the Authors

Benoît Stijlemans

bstijlem@vub.ac.be

Affiliations Department of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, Myeloid Cell Immunology Laboratory, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Brussels, Belgium

Lin Leng

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Lea Brys

Affiliations Department of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, Myeloid Cell Immunology Laboratory, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Brussels, Belgium

Amanda Sparkes

Affiliations Department of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, Myeloid Cell Immunology Laboratory, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Brussels, Belgium

Liese Vansintjan

Affiliations Department of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, Myeloid Cell Immunology Laboratory, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Brussels, Belgium

Guy Caljon

Affiliation Unit of Veterinary Protozoology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Geert Raes

Affiliations Department of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, Myeloid Cell Immunology Laboratory, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Brussels, Belgium

Jan Van Den Abbeele

Affiliation Unit of Veterinary Protozoology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Jo A. Van Ginderachter

Affiliations Department of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, Myeloid Cell Immunology Laboratory, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Brussels, Belgium

Alain Beschin

Affiliations Department of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, Myeloid Cell Immunology Laboratory, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Brussels, Belgium

Richard Bucala

Contributed equally to this work with: Richard Bucala, Patrick De Baetselier

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Patrick De Baetselier

Contributed equally to this work with: Richard Bucala, Patrick De Baetselier

Affiliations Department of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, Myeloid Cell Immunology Laboratory, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Brussels, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BS JAVG AB RB. Performed the experiments: BS LB AS LV. Analyzed the data: BS AS LV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BS LL RB GC JVDA GR. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: BS AB RB JAVG GR PDB.