About the Authors

Hannelore Lotter

lotter@bni-hamburg.de

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Elena Helk

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Hannah Bernin

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Thomas Jacobs

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Cornelia Prehn

Affiliation Helmholtz Center Munich, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Genome Analysis Center, Neuherberg, Germany

Jerzy Adamski

Affiliation Helmholtz Center Munich, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Genome Analysis Center, Neuherberg, Germany

Nestor González-Roldán

Affiliation Division of Immunobiology, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Borstel, Germany

Otto Holst

Affiliation Division of Structural Biochemistry, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Borstel, Germany

Egbert Tannich

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HL ET TJ. Performed the experiments: HL EH HB NGR CP TJ. Analyzed the data: HL TJ EH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JA OH. Wrote the paper: HL ET.