About the Authors

Miriam Klausberger

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Rupert Tscheliessnig

Affiliations Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria

Silke Neff

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Raffael Nachbagauer

Affiliations Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Teddy John Wohlbold

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Monika Wilde

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Dieter Palmberger

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Florian Krammer

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Alois Jungbauer

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Reingard Grabherr

reingard.grabherr@boku.ac.at

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

Rupert Tscheliessnig was funded by and is employed by the Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai together with the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences has filed a patent on the mentioned display system for influenza epitopes (influenza virus vaccines and uses thereof; application no. 62180405). There are no further 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, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MK FK AJ RG. Performed the experiments: MK SN RT RN TW MW DP. Analyzed the data: MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FK. Wrote the paper: MK.