About the Authors

Franziska Roth-Walter

Contributed equally to this work with: Franziska Roth-Walter, Anna Moskovskich

Affiliation Comparative Medicine, Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Medical University of Vienna and University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Anna Moskovskich

Contributed equally to this work with: Franziska Roth-Walter, Anna Moskovskich

Affiliation Comparative Medicine, Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Medical University of Vienna and University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Cristina Gomez-Casado

Affiliation Biotechnology Department, Center for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics, Technical University Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Araceli Diaz-Perales

Affiliation Biotechnology Department, Center for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics, Technical University Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Kumiko Oida

Affiliations Comparative Medicine, Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Medical University of Vienna and University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Cooperative Major in Advanced Health Science, Graduate School of Bio-Applications and System Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Josef Singer

Affiliation Comparative Immunology and Oncology, Institute of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Tamar Kinaciyan

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Division of Immunology, Allergy and Infectious Diseases (DIAID), Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Heidemarie C. Fuchs

Affiliation Department of Biochemical Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, Vienna, Austria

Erika Jensen-Jarolim

Erika.jensen-jarolim@meduniwien.ac.at

Affiliations Comparative Medicine, Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Medical University of Vienna and University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Comparative Immunology and Oncology, Institute of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FRW AM. Performed the experiments: AM CGC JS FRW. Analyzed the data: AM FRW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ADP TK HCF. Wrote the paper: FRW EJJ AM KO TK CGC.