About the Authors
- Franziska Kühlhorn
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Contributed equally to this work with: Franziska Kühlhorn, Matthias Rath
Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Matthias Rath
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Contributed equally to this work with: Franziska Kühlhorn, Matthias Rath
Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Katrin Schmoeckel
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Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Katharina Cziupka
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Huu Hung Nguyen
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Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Petra Hildebrandt
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Affiliation Interfaculty Institute of Genetics and Functional Genomics, Department of Functional Genomics, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Thomas Hünig
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Affiliation Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Tim Sparwasser
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Affiliation Institute of Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, Hannover, Germany
- Jochen Huehn
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Affiliation Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
- Christian Pötschke
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¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Barbara M. Bröker
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* E-mail: 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.