About the Authors

Matthias Tenbusch

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthias Tenbusch, Ralf Ignatius

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Virology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Ralf Ignatius

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthias Tenbusch, Ralf Ignatius

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charité – University Medicine of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Godwin Nchinda

Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Christine Trumpfheller

Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Andres M. Salazar

Affiliation Oncovir Inc., Washington, D.C., United States of America

Katharina Töpfer

Affiliation Unit of Infection Models, German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany

Ulrike Sauermann

Affiliation Unit of Infection Models, German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany

Ralf Wagner

Affiliation Geneart, Regensburg, Germany

Drew Hannaman

Affiliation Ichor Medical Systems, San Diego, California, United States of America

Klara Tenner-Racz

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Paul Racz

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Christiane Stahl-Hennig

Affiliation Unit of Infection Models, German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany

Klaus Überla

klaus.ueberla@rub.de

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Virology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Competing Interests

A. Salazar is an employee of the company Oncovir Inc., D. Hannaman is employee of the company Ichor Medical Systems and R. Wagner is an employee of Geneart. 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: MT RI CSH KÜ. Performed the experiments: MT RI CT KT US KTR PR CSH. Analyzed the data: MT RI KTR PR CSH KÜ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GN AMS RW DH. Wrote the paper: MT RI KTR PR CSH KÜ.