About the Authors

Skadi Kull

Current address: Division of Clinical and Molecular Allergology, Research Center Borstel, Airway Research Center North (ARCN), Borstel, Germany

Affiliation Biological Toxins (ZBS3), Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany

K. Melanie Schulz

Affiliation Biological Toxins (ZBS3), Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany

Jasmin Weisemann née Strotmeier

Affiliation Institut für Toxikologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Sebastian Kirchner

Current address: Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Affiliation Biological Toxins (ZBS3), Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany

Tanja Schreiber

Affiliation Biological Toxins (ZBS3), Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany

Alexander Bollenbach

Affiliation Institut für Toxikologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany

P. Wojtek Dabrowski

Affiliation Highly Pathogenic Viruses (ZBS1), Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany

Andreas Nitsche

Affiliation Highly Pathogenic Viruses (ZBS1), Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany

Suzanne R. Kalb

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health, Division of Laboratory Sciences, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Martin B. Dorner

Affiliation Biological Toxins (ZBS3), Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany

John R. Barr

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health, Division of Laboratory Sciences, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Andreas Rummel

Affiliation Institut für Toxikologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Brigitte G. Dorner

DornerB@rki.de

Affiliation Biological Toxins (ZBS3), Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: S. Kull KMS SRK MBD AN JRB AR BGD. Performed the experiments: S. Kull KMS JW S. Kirchner TS AB SRK MBD. Analyzed the data: S. Kull KMS JW PWD AN SRK AR MBD BGD. Wrote the paper: S. Kull KMS MBD AR BGD.