About the Authors
- Simon Wöhrle
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Current address: Boehringer Ingelheim RCV GmbH & Co. KG., Vienna, Austria
Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- Andreas Weiss
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Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Weiss, Moriko Ito, Audrey Kauffmann, Masato Murakami
Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- Moriko Ito
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Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Weiss, Moriko Ito, Audrey Kauffmann, Masato Murakami
Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- Audrey Kauffmann
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Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Weiss, Moriko Ito, Audrey Kauffmann, Masato Murakami
Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- Masato Murakami
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Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Weiss, Moriko Ito, Audrey Kauffmann, Masato Murakami
Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- Zainab Jagani
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Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Anne Thuery
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Current address: Centre for Immunology and Infection, Department of Biology, University of York, York, United Kingdom
Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- Beatrice Bauer-Probst
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Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- Flavia Reimann
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Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- Christelle Stamm
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Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- Astrid Pornon
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Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- Vincent Romanet
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Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- Vito Guagnano
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Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- Thomas Brümmendorf
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Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- William R. Sellers
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Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Francesco Hofmann
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Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- Charles W. M. Roberts
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Affiliation Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Diana Graus Porta
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* E-mail: diana.graus_porta@novartis.com
Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
Competing Interests
AW, MI, AK, MM, ZJ, BBP, FR, CS, AP, VG, T, WRS, FH and DGP are employees of Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research. AT was an employee of Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research. Author Simon Wöhrle was employed at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research during the whole course of this study. His present affiliation is with Boehringer Ingelheim as indicated in the Competing Interests section. The authors confirm that this does not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SW WRS FH CWMR DGP. Performed the experiments: SW AT BBP FR CS AP VR. Analyzed the data: SW AW MI MM DGP AK VG TB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK TB ZJ CWMR. Wrote the paper: SW DGP.