About the Authors

Domokos Bartis

Contributed equally to this work with: Domokos Bartis, Veronika Csongei

Affiliations Department of Medical Biotechnology, Institute of Immunology and Biotechnology, Medical School, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary, Department of Medicine, Medical School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Veronika Csongei

Contributed equally to this work with: Domokos Bartis, Veronika Csongei

Affiliations Department of Medical Biotechnology, Institute of Immunology and Biotechnology, Medical School, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary, Szentagothai Research Center, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary

Alexander Weich

Affiliation Department of Medical Biotechnology, Institute of Immunology and Biotechnology, Medical School, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary

Edit Kiss

Affiliations Department of Medical Biotechnology, Institute of Immunology and Biotechnology, Medical School, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary, Szentagothai Research Center, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary

Szilvia Barko

Affiliation Department of Biophysics, Medical School, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary

Tamas Kovacs

Affiliations Department of Medical Biotechnology, Institute of Immunology and Biotechnology, Medical School, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary, Szentagothai Research Center, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary

Monika Avdicevic

Affiliation Department of Medical Biotechnology, Institute of Immunology and Biotechnology, Medical School, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary

Vijay K. D’Souza

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Medical School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Judit Rapp

Affiliations Department of Medical Biotechnology, Institute of Immunology and Biotechnology, Medical School, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary, Szentagothai Research Center, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary

Krisztian Kvell

Affiliations Department of Medical Biotechnology, Institute of Immunology and Biotechnology, Medical School, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary, Szentagothai Research Center, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary

Laszlo Jakab

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Medical School, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary

Miklos Nyitrai

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Medical School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Szentagothai Research Center, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary

Tamas F. Molnar

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Medical School, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary

David R. Thickett

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Medical School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Terezia Laszlo

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Medical School, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary

Judit E. Pongracz

judit.e.pongracz@aok.pte.hu

Affiliations Department of Medical Biotechnology, Institute of Immunology and Biotechnology, Medical School, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary, Szentagothai Research Center, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JEP DB DRT. Performed the experiments: DB VC AW EK SB TK MA VKS JR KK LJ MN TFM TL. Analyzed the data: DB VC TL TFM MN DRT JEP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JEP DRT TFM MN. Wrote the paper: DB VC JEP.