About the Authors

Dirk Hoffmann

Affiliation Heinrich Pette Institute – Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Doreen Schwarck

Affiliation Heinrich Pette Institute – Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Carina Banning

Affiliation Heinrich Pette Institute – Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Matthias Brenner

Affiliation Institute for Clinical and Molecular Virology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Lakshmikanth Mariyanna

Affiliation Heinrich Pette Institute – Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Marcel Krepstakies

Affiliation Heinrich Pette Institute – Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Michael Schindler

Affiliation Heinrich Pette Institute – Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

David P. Millar

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Joachim Hauber

joachim.hauber@hpi.uni-hamburg.de

Affiliation Heinrich Pette Institute – Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DH DS MS MK DPM JH. Performed the experiments: DH DS CB MB LM MK. Analyzed the data: DH DS CB MS DPM JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CB MB LM MK MS DPM. Wrote the paper: DH JH.