About the Authors

Harald Kempf

Affiliations Department of Systems Immunology and Braunschweig Integrated Centre of Systems Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt, Germany

Marcus Bleicher

Affiliation Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt, Germany

Michael Meyer-Hermann

michael.meyer-hermann@theoretical-biology.de

Affiliations Department of Systems Immunology and Braunschweig Integrated Centre of Systems Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, Institute for Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HK MB MM. Performed the experiments: HK. Analyzed the data: HK MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HK. Wrote the paper: HK MM.