About the Authors

Sarah Lehmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah Lehmann, Julia Hiller

Affiliations Institute of Environmental Medicine, UNIKA-T, Technische Universität München, Augsburg, Germany, Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Technische Universität & Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany

Julia Hiller

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah Lehmann, Julia Hiller

Affiliations Institute of Environmental Medicine, UNIKA-T, Technische Universität München, Augsburg, Germany, Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Technische Universität & Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany

Jeroen van Bergenhenegouwen

Affiliations Nutricia Research, Department of Immunology, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Division of Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Leon M. J. Knippels

Affiliations Nutricia Research, Department of Immunology, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Division of Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Johan Garssen

Affiliations Nutricia Research, Department of Immunology, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Division of Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann

claudia.traidl-hoffmann@tum.de

Affiliations Institute of Environmental Medicine, UNIKA-T, Technische Universität München, Augsburg, Germany, CK CARE-Christine Kühne Center for Allergy Research and Education, Davos, Switzerland

Competing Interests

JvB, LK and JG are fully or part-time paid by Nutricia Research B.V., whose company provided funding towards this study. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. 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: CTH. Performed the experiments: SL JH. Analyzed the data: SL JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JG CTH LMJK. Wrote the paper: SL JH JvB. Was involved in editing the manuscript: LMJK.