About the Authors

Georg Dössinger

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Mario Bunse

Affiliation Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Jeannette Bet

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, Focus Group “Clinical Cell Processing and Purification”, Institute for Advanced Study, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Julia Albrecht

Affiliation Clinical Cooperation Groups ‘‘Antigen-specific Immunotherapy’’ and “Immune Monitoring”, Helmholtz Center Munich (Neuherberg) and Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Paulina J. Paszkiewicz

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, Focus Group “Clinical Cell Processing and Purification”, Institute for Advanced Study, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Bianca Weißbrich

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, Focus Group “Clinical Cell Processing and Purification”, Institute for Advanced Study, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Isabell Schiedewitz

Affiliation Clinical Cooperation Groups ‘‘Antigen-specific Immunotherapy’’ and “Immune Monitoring”, Helmholtz Center Munich (Neuherberg) and Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Lynette Henkel

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Matthias Schiemann

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Groups ‘‘Antigen-specific Immunotherapy’’ and “Immune Monitoring”, Helmholtz Center Munich (Neuherberg) and Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Michael Neuenhahn

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Groups ‘‘Antigen-specific Immunotherapy’’ and “Immune Monitoring”, Helmholtz Center Munich (Neuherberg) and Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Wolfgang Uckert

Affiliations Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany

Dirk H. Busch

dirk.busch@mikrobio.med.tum.de

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, Focus Group “Clinical Cell Processing and Purification”, Institute for Advanced Study, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Groups ‘‘Antigen-specific Immunotherapy’’ and “Immune Monitoring”, Helmholtz Center Munich (Neuherberg) and Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, DZIF - National Centre for Infection Research, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GD DHB. Performed the experiments: GD MB IS LH. Analyzed the data: GD MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB WU JB PJP MS MN JA BW. Wrote the paper: GD DHB.