About the Authors

Stefan Ehrentraut

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Ehrentraut, Stefan Nagel

Affiliation Leibniz Institute, DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Department of Human and Animal Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

Stefan Nagel

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Ehrentraut, Stefan Nagel

Affiliation Leibniz Institute, DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Department of Human and Animal Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

Michaela E. Scherr

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Björn Schneider

Affiliation University of Rostock, Institute of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, Rostock, Germany

Hilmar Quentmeier

Affiliation Leibniz Institute, DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Department of Human and Animal Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

Robert Geffers

Affiliation Department of Genome Analysis, HZI-Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Maren Kaufmann

Affiliation Leibniz Institute, DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Department of Human and Animal Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

Corinna Meyer

Affiliation Leibniz Institute, DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Department of Human and Animal Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

Monika Prochorec-Sobieszek

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Hematology, Institute of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Warsaw, Poland

Rhett P. Ketterling

Affiliation College of Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Ryan A. Knudson

Affiliation College of Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Andrew L. Feldman

Affiliation College of Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Marshall E. Kadin

Affiliation Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology and Skin Surgery, Roger Williams Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Hans G. Drexler

Affiliation Leibniz Institute, DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Department of Human and Animal Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

Roderick A. F. MacLeod

rml@dsmz.de

Affiliation Leibniz Institute, DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Department of Human and Animal Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SE SN MES BS RPK RAK ALF MEK RAFM. Performed the experiments: SE SN MES BS HQ RG MK CM RPK RAK RAFM. Analyzed the data: SE SN MES BS RG ALF RAFM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MES HQ MPS ALF MEK HGD. Wrote the paper: SE SN MES ALF MEK HGD RAFM.