About the Authors

Silke Uhrig-Schmidt

Current address: Centre for Infectious Diseases/Virology, Heidelberg University Hospital and Cluster of Excellence CellNetworks, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 267, Heidelberg, Germany

Affiliation Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach an der Riss, Germany

Matthias Geiger

Affiliation Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, SLA C92, Institute of Food Nutrition and Health, Schwerzenbach, Switzerland

Gerd Luippold

Affiliation Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach an der Riss, Germany

Gerald Birk

Affiliation Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach an der Riss, Germany

Detlev Mennerich

Affiliation Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach an der Riss, Germany

Heike Neubauer

Affiliation Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach an der Riss, Germany

Dirk Grimm

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases/Virology, Heidelberg University Hospital and Cluster of Excellence CellNetworks, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 267, Heidelberg, Germany

Christian Wolfrum

Affiliation Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, SLA C92, Institute of Food Nutrition and Health, Schwerzenbach, Switzerland

Sebastian Kreuz

sebastian.kreuz@boehringer-ingelheim.com

Affiliation Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach an der Riss, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: GL, GB, DM, HN and SK are employees of Boehringer Ingelheim. SUS was previously employed at Boehringer Ingelheim. This does not alter their adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SUS HN CW SK. Performed the experiments: SUS MG GL GB. Analyzed the data: SUS DM CW SK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SUS CW SK. Wrote the paper: SUS DM HN DG SK.