About the Authors

Elisa Schneider

Affiliation NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Hanna Zimmermann

Affiliation NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Timm Oberwahrenbrock

Affiliation NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Falko Kaufhold

Affiliation NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Ella Maria Kadas

Affiliation NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Axel Petzold

Affiliation MS Centre Amsterdam, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Frieder Bilger

Affiliation NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Nadja Borisow

Affiliation NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Sven Jarius

Affiliation Division of Molecular Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Brigitte Wildemann

Affiliation Division of Molecular Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Klemens Ruprecht

Affiliations Clinical and Experimental Multiple Sclerosis Research Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Alexander U. Brandt

Affiliation NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Friedemann Paul

friedemann.paul@charite.de

Affiliations NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Clinical and Experimental Multiple Sclerosis Research Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

Friedemann Paul is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. 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: HZ AP AUB FP. Performed the experiments: ES HZ FK FB. Analyzed the data: HZ TO EMK AUB NB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BW SJ KR AUB FP. Wrote the paper: ES HZ TO AUB FP.