About the Authors

Susanne Helm

Affiliation Malaria Laboratory 1, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Christine Lehmann

Affiliation Malaria Laboratory 1, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Andreas Nagel

Affiliation Malaria Laboratory 1, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Rebecca R. Stanway

Current address: Malaria Laboratory, Institute of Cell Biology, Bern, Switzerland

Affiliation Malaria Laboratory 1, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Sebastian Horstmann

Affiliation Malaria Laboratory 1, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Manuel Llinas

Affiliation Carl Icahn Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Volker T. Heussler

heussler@bni-hamburg.de

Current address: Malaria Laboratory, Institute of Cell Biology, Bern, Switzerland

Affiliation Malaria Laboratory 1, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH CL AN RS SH ML VTH. Performed the experiments: SH CL AN RS. Analyzed the data: SH CL RS SH ML VTH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS SH ML. Wrote the paper: SH ML VTH.