About the Authors

Nagendra N. Thakur

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Louisiana State University, Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Immunology, Clinical Cooperation Group Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, Munich, Germany, Department of Medicine III, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Susanne El-Gogo

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Beatrix Steer

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Immunology, Clinical Cooperation Group Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, Munich, Germany, Department of Medicine III, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Klaus Freimüller

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Immunology, Clinical Cooperation Group Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, Munich, Germany

Andreas Waha

Affiliation Institute of Neuropathology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Heiko Adler

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: h.adler@gsf.de

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Immunology, Clinical Cooperation Group Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HA. Performed the experiments: SE BS AW NT KF. Analyzed the data: HA SE AW NT. Wrote the paper: HA.