About the Authors

Jan D. Haas

Affiliation Institute for Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Kiran Nistala

Affiliation Rheumatology Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Franziska Petermann

Affiliation Klinikum rechts der Isar, Department of Neurology, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany

Namita Saran

Affiliation Institute for Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Vijaykumar Chennupati

Affiliation Institute for Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Susanne Schmitz

Affiliation Institute for Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Thomas Korn

Affiliation Klinikum rechts der Isar, Department of Neurology, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany

Lucy R. Wedderburn

Affiliation Rheumatology Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Reinhold Förster

Affiliation Institute for Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Andreas Krueger

Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Krueger, Immo Prinz

Affiliation Institute for Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Immo Prinz

Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Krueger, Immo Prinz

prinz.immo@mh-hannover.de

Affiliation Institute for Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JDH IP AK TK LRW RF. Performed the experiments: JDH KN FP NS VC SS AK IP. Analyzed the data: JDH KN FP NS VC SS AK IP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KN LRW FP TK. Wrote the paper: JDH AK IP.