About the Authors

Sonja Grosskinsky

Affiliation Infectious Immunology Group, Institute for Immunology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Melanie Schott

Affiliation Infectious Immunology Group, Institute for Immunology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Christiane Brenner

Affiliation Infectious Immunology Group, Institute for Immunology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Sally J. Cutler

Affiliation School of Health and Bioscience, University of East London, Stratford, London, United Kingdom

Markus M. Simon

Affiliation Infectious Immunology Group, Institute for Immunology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Reinhard Wallich

wallich@uni-hd.de

Affiliation Infectious Immunology Group, Institute for Immunology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG RW. Performed the experiments: SG MS CB. Analyzed the data: SG CB MMS RW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS SJC. Wrote the paper: SG MMS RW.