About the Authors

Luciana M. Pujol-Lereis

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lpujollereis@cidie.ucc.edu.ar (LMPL); bweb@klinik.uni-regensburg.de (BHFW)

Current address: Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Inmunología y Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIDIE-CONICET), Córdoba, Argentina

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Gerhard Liebisch

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Tina Schick

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Yuchen Lin

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany

Felix Grassmann

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Koji Uchida

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Peter F. Zipfel

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany

Sascha Fauser

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, F. Hoffmann—La Roche, Basel, Switzerland

Christine Skerka

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany

Bernhard H. F. Weber

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lpujollereis@cidie.ucc.edu.ar (LMPL); bweb@klinik.uni-regensburg.de (BHFW)

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The affiliation of Dr. Sascha Fauser to F. Hoffmann - La Roche does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.