About the Authors

Franziska Kühlhorn

Contributed equally to this work with: Franziska Kühlhorn, Matthias Rath

Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Matthias Rath

Contributed equally to this work with: Franziska Kühlhorn, Matthias Rath

Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Katrin Schmoeckel

Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Katharina Cziupka

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Huu Hung Nguyen

Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Petra Hildebrandt

Affiliation Interfaculty Institute of Genetics and Functional Genomics, Department of Functional Genomics, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Thomas Hünig

Affiliation Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Tim Sparwasser

Affiliation Institute of Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, Hannover, Germany

Jochen Huehn

Affiliation Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Christian Pötschke

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Barbara M. Bröker

broeker@uni-greifswald.de

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Thomas Hünig was paid for consultancies and holds stock options from TheraMab LLC. All other authors declare no competing interests. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FK MR CP BMB. Performed the experiments: FK MR KS KC HHN PH CP. Analyzed the data: FK MR CP BMB. Wrote the paper: CP BMB. Contributed reagents and transgenic mice: TH TS JH.