About the Authors

Christoph Buerth

Contributed equally to this work with: Christoph Buerth, Anne K. Mausberg

christoph.buerth@uni-duesseldorf.de (CB); mausberg@uni-duesseldorf.de (AKM)

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Mycology, Department Biology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Anne K. Mausberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Christoph Buerth, Anne K. Mausberg

christoph.buerth@uni-duesseldorf.de (CB); mausberg@uni-duesseldorf.de (AKM)

Affiliation Research Group for Clinical and Experimental Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Maximilian K. Heininger

Affiliation Research Group for Clinical and Experimental Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Hans-Peter Hartung

Affiliation Research Group for Clinical and Experimental Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Bernd C. Kieseier

Affiliation Research Group for Clinical and Experimental Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Joachim F. Ernst

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Mycology, Department Biology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB AKM BCK JFE. Performed the experiments: CB AKM MKH. Analyzed the data: CB AKM MKH. Wrote the paper: CB AKM HPH BCK JFE.