About the Authors

Mario Hermann

Affiliations Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Morgan L. Maeder

Affiliation Molecular Pathology Unit, Center for Cancer Research, and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kyle Rector

Affiliation Transposagen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Joseph Ruiz

Affiliation Transposagen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Burkhard Becher

Affiliation Institute for Experimental Immunology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Kurt Bürki

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Cyd Khayter

Affiliation Molecular Pathology Unit, Center for Cancer Research, and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Adriano Aguzzi

Affiliation Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

J. Keith Joung

Affiliations Molecular Pathology Unit, Center for Cancer Research, and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Thorsten Buch

Contributed equally to this work with: Thorsten Buch, Pawel Pelczar

thorsten.buch@mikrobio.med.tum.de (TB); pawel.pelczar@ltk.uzh.ch (PP)

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Immunology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Pawel Pelczar

Contributed equally to this work with: Thorsten Buch, Pawel Pelczar

thorsten.buch@mikrobio.med.tum.de (TB); pawel.pelczar@ltk.uzh.ch (PP)

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

KR and JR are employees of Transposagen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. JKJ has a financial interest in Transposagen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. JKJ's interests were reviewed and are managed by Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners HealthCare in accordance with their conflict of interest policies. 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: TB PP JKJ. Performed the experiments: MH TB PP MLM KR JR CK. Analyzed the data: MH TB PP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AA BB KB KR JR. Wrote the paper: TB PP MH . Supervision of Experiments: TB PP AA BB KB JKJ.