About the Authors

Christian Stelter

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Stelter, Rina Käppeli

Affiliation Junior Group, Mucosal Infections, Institute of Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Rina Käppeli

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Stelter, Rina Käppeli

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Claudia König

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Alexander Krah

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Wolf-Dietrich Hardt

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Bärbel Stecher

Affiliation Arbeitsgruppe Mikrobiota & Infektionen, Max von Pettenkofer-Institute, München, Germany

Dirk Bumann

Dirk.Bumann@unibas.ch

Affiliations Junior Group, Mucosal Infections, Institute of Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Department of Molecular Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany, Infection Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS RK BS WDH DB. Performed the experiments: CS RK CK AK. Analyzed the data: CS RK BS WDH DB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DB WDH. Wrote the paper: DB BS RK.