About the Authors

Beata M. Zygmunt

beata.zygmunt@bbsrc.ac.uk (BMZ); carlos.guzman@helmholtz-hzi.de (CAG)

Current address: Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Affiliation Department of Vaccinology and Applied Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Sebastian F. Weissmann

Affiliation Department of Vaccinology and Applied Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Carlos A. Guzman

beata.zygmunt@bbsrc.ac.uk (BMZ); carlos.guzman@helmholtz-hzi.de (CAG)

Affiliation Department of Vaccinology and Applied Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts of interest: Carlos A. Guzman is inventor in a pending patent for the usage of αGCPEG held by the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (EPA05022771.9; PCT/EP2006010086). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BMZ CAG. Performed the experiments: BMZ SFW. Analyzed the data: BMZ SFW CAG. Wrote the paper: BMZ CAG.