About the Authors

Maria A. Nilsson

mnilsson@uni-muenster.de (MAN); jueschm@uni-muenster.de (JS)

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Pathology (ZMBE), University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Gennady Churakov

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Pathology (ZMBE), University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Mirjam Sommer

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Pathology (ZMBE), University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Ngoc Van Tran

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Pathology (ZMBE), University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Anja Zemann

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Pathology (ZMBE), University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Jürgen Brosius

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Pathology (ZMBE), University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Jürgen Schmitz

mnilsson@uni-muenster.de (MAN); jueschm@uni-muenster.de (JS)

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Pathology (ZMBE), University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: MAN JS. Performed the experiments: MAN MS NVT AZ. Analyzed the data: MAN GC JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JB JS. Wrote the paper: MAN JS. Performed all bioinformatical screening: GC.