About the Authors

Bryndís Ragnarsdóttir

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Glycobiology, Institute of Laboratory Medicine Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Klas Jönsson

Affiliation Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), Biomedical Sciences Institutes, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore

Alexander Urbano

Affiliation Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), Biomedical Sciences Institutes, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore

Jenny Grönberg-Hernandez

Affiliation Department of Urology, Institute for Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden

Nataliya Lutay

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Glycobiology, Institute of Laboratory Medicine Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Martti Tammi

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Singapore

Mattias Gustafsson

Current address: Department of Medical Microbiology, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Glycobiology, Institute of Laboratory Medicine Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Ann-Charlotte Lundstedt

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Glycobiology, Institute of Laboratory Medicine Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Irene Leijonhufvud

Current address: Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Glycobiology, Institute of Laboratory Medicine Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Diana Karpman

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Björn Wullt

Affiliation Department of Urology, Institute for Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden

Lennart Truedsson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Glycobiology, Institute of Laboratory Medicine Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Ulf Jodal

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, The Queen Silvia Children's Hospital, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden

Björn Andersson

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Catharina Svanborg

catharina.svanborg@med.lu.se

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Glycobiology, Institute of Laboratory Medicine Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), Biomedical Sciences Institutes, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BR KJ AU MT BA CS. Performed the experiments: BR KJ AU JGH NL MT MG. Analyzed the data: BR AU JGH MT CS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ACL IL DK BW LT UJ BA CS. Wrote the paper: BR AU MT BA CS.