About the Authors

Selina Christen

Affiliation Pharmazentrum Frankfurt/ZAFES, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Ken Coppieters

Affiliation The La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Kerstin Rose

Affiliation Pharmazentrum Frankfurt/ZAFES, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Martin Holdener

Affiliation Pharmazentrum Frankfurt/ZAFES, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Monika Bayer

Affiliation Pharmazentrum Frankfurt/ZAFES, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Josef M. Pfeilschifter

Affiliation Pharmazentrum Frankfurt/ZAFES, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Edith Hintermann

Affiliation Pharmazentrum Frankfurt/ZAFES, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Matthias G. von Herrath

Affiliation The La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Michel Aurrand-Lions

Affiliation Inserm, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille, Inserm, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, UMR 891, Marseille, France

Beat A. Imhof

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Centre Médical Universitaire, Geneva, Switzerland

Urs Christen

christen@med.uni-frankfurt.de

Affiliation Pharmazentrum Frankfurt/ZAFES, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SC KC EH MAL BAI UC. Performed the experiments: SC KC KR MH MB EH. Analyzed the data: SC KC UC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMP MGvH MAL BAI UC. Wrote the paper: SC UC.