About the Authors

Christiane Landgraf

Contributed equally to this work with: Christiane Landgraf, Simona Panni

Affiliation Institut für Medizinische Immunologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Simona Panni

Contributed equally to this work with: Christiane Landgraf, Simona Panni

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

Luisa Montecchi-Palazzi

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

Luisa Castagnoli

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

Jens Schneider-Mergener

Affiliations Institut für Medizinische Immunologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Jerini AG, Berlin, Germany

Rudolf Volkmer-Engert

Affiliation Institut für Medizinische Immunologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Gianni Cesareni

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: cesareni@uniroma2.it

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no conflicts of interest exist.

Author Contributions

LC, JS-M, RV-E, and GC conceived and designed the experiments. CL and SP performed the experiments. LM-P analyzed the data. JS-M and RV-E contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. GC wrote the paper.