About the Authors

Anne-Kathrin Claes

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medicine, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Division Models of Inflammation, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

Natalie Steck

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medicine, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Division Models of Inflammation, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

Dorothee Schultz

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medicine, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Division Models of Inflammation, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

Ulrich Zähringer

Affiliation Division Immunochemistry, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

Simone Lipinski

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology; University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Philip Rosenstiel

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology; University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Kaoru Geddes

Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dana J. Philpott

Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Holger Heine

Affiliation Division of Innate Immunity, Research Center Borstel, Member of the Airway Research Center North (ARCN) of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Borstel, Germany

Guntram A. Grassl

g.grassl@iem.uni-kiel.de

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medicine, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Division Models of Inflammation, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKC NS SL DJP PR HH GAG. Performed the experiments: AKC DS NS SL KG GG. Analyzed the data: AKC NS KG SL UZ GAG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PR DJP UZ. Wrote the paper: AKC NS UZ DJP HH GAG.