About the Authors

Jenny Freitag

Current address: Institute for Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, a joint venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany

Affiliation Department of Immunology, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany

Sylvia Heink

Current address: Klinikum rechts der Isar der TU München, Experimentelle Neuroimmunologie, München, Germany

Affiliation Department of Immunology, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany

Edith Roth

Affiliation Division of Molecular Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine III, Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Center, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Jürgen Wittmann

Affiliation Division of Molecular Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine III, Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Center, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Hans-Martin Jäck

Affiliation Division of Molecular Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine III, Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Center, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Thomas Kamradt

thomas.kamradt@med.uni-jena.de

Affiliation Department of Immunology, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JF SH HMJ TK. Performed the experiments: JF SH ER JW. Analyzed the data: JF SH HMJ TK. Wrote the paper: JF HMJ TK.