About the Authors

Reto Guler

Contributed equally to this work with: Reto Guler, Suraj P. Parihar

Affiliation International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (ICGEB), Cape Town component and Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (IDM), Division of Immunology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Suraj P. Parihar

Contributed equally to this work with: Reto Guler, Suraj P. Parihar

Affiliation International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (ICGEB), Cape Town component and Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (IDM), Division of Immunology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Suzana Savvi

Affiliation International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (ICGEB), Cape Town component and Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (IDM), Division of Immunology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Erin Logan

Affiliation International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (ICGEB), Cape Town component and Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (IDM), Division of Immunology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Anita Schwegmann

Affiliation International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (ICGEB), Cape Town component and Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (IDM), Division of Immunology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Sugata Roy

Affiliation RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Division of Genomic Technologies, Yokohama, Japan

Natalie E. Nieuwenhuizen

Current address: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Department of Immunology, Berlin, Germany

Affiliation International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (ICGEB), Cape Town component and Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (IDM), Division of Immunology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Mumin Ozturk

Affiliation International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (ICGEB), Cape Town component and Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (IDM), Division of Immunology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Sebastian Schmeier

Affiliation Massey University, Institute of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland, New Zealand

Harukazu Suzuki

Affiliation RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Division of Genomic Technologies, Yokohama, Japan

Frank Brombacher

frank.brombacher@icgeb.org

Affiliation International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (ICGEB), Cape Town component and Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (IDM), Division of Immunology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RG SPP S. Savvi AS FB. Performed the experiments: RG SPP S. Savvi EL AS SR NEN. Analyzed the data: RG SPP S. Savvi EL AS SR NEN MO S. Schmeier. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RG HS FB. Wrote the paper: RG SPP.