About the Authors

Nadia Terziyska

Affiliation Department of Gene Vectors, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany

Catarina Castro Alves

Affiliation Department of Gene Vectors, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany

Volker Groiss

Affiliation Department of Gene Vectors, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany

Katja Schneider

Affiliation Department of Gene Vectors, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany

Katarina Farkasova

Affiliation Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Center for System-Based Drug Research, Department of Pharmacy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

Manfred Ogris

Affiliation Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Center for System-Based Drug Research, Department of Pharmacy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

Ernst Wagner

Affiliation Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Center for System-Based Drug Research, Department of Pharmacy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

Harald Ehrhardt

Affiliation Department of Gene Vectors, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany

Renier J. Brentjens

Affiliation Department of Medicine and the Center for Cell Engineering, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Udo zur Stadt

Affiliation Research Institute Children’s Cancer Center, Paediatric Haematology and Oncology and Center for Diagnostic, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg Eppendorf, Germany

Martin Horstmann

Affiliation Research Institute Children’s Cancer Center, Paediatric Haematology and Oncology and Center for Diagnostic, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg Eppendorf, Germany

Leticia Quintanilla-Martinez

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany

Irmela Jeremias

irmela.jeremias@helmholtz-muenchen.de

Affiliations Department of Gene Vectors, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany, Department of Oncology, Dr. von Haunersches Kinderspital, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NT IJ MO. Performed the experiments: VG KS KF EW HE US MH LQ-M. Analyzed the data: NT CCA VG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RJB. Wrote the paper: NT CCA VG IJ.