About the Authors

Pascal Songhet

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology (D-BIOL), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Manja Barthel

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology (D-BIOL), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Bärbel Stecher

Current address: Max von Pettenkofer-Institut, Ludwig Maximilian Universität, Munich, Germany

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology (D-BIOL), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Andreas J. Müller

Current address: Dynamics of Immune Responses, Institute Pasteur, Paris, France

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology (D-BIOL), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Marcus Kremer

Affiliation Institut für Allgemeine Pathologie und Pathologische Anatomie, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Gunnar C. Hansson

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Wolf-Dietrich Hardt

hardt@micro.biol.ethz.ch

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology (D-BIOL), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PS W-DH. Performed the experiments: PS MB AJM. Analyzed the data: PS BS MK MB W-DH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GCH. Wrote the paper: PS W-DH.