About the Authors

Andrea Wuestenberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Wuestenberg, Janine Kah

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Immunology and Hepatology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Janine Kah

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Wuestenberg, Janine Kah

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Immunology and Hepatology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Katrin Singethan

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Technische Universität München/Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Munich, Germany

Hüseyin Sirma

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Amelie Dorothea Keller

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Immunology and Hepatology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Sergio René Perez Rosal

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Immunology and Hepatology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Jörg Schrader

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Christine Loscher

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Immunology and Hepatology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Tassilo Volz

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Ralf Bartenschlager

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Volker Lohmann

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Ulrike Protzer

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Technische Universität München/Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Munich, Germany

Maura Dandri

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Ansgar W. Lohse

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Gisa Tiegs

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Immunology and Hepatology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Gabriele Sass

g.sass@uke.de

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Immunology and Hepatology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GS MD JS GT AWL VL RB UP. Performed the experiments: AW JK CL ADK SRR KS TV HS. Analyzed the data: GS AW JK ADK SRR KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RB VL MD HS UP JS. Wrote the paper: GS AW JK.