About the Authors

Henry Memczak

Contributed equally to this work with: Henry Memczak, Daniel Lauster

Affiliations Department of Bioanalytics and Biosensorics, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Branch Bioanalytics and Bioprocesses, Potsdam, Germany, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Daniel Lauster

Contributed equally to this work with: Henry Memczak, Daniel Lauster

Affiliation Department of Biology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Parimal Kar

Current address: Center for Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, MP, India

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Theory and Bio-Systems, Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany

Santiago Di Lella

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Biology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Departamento de Química Biológica e IQUIBICEN-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Rudolf Volkmer

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Charité, Berlin, Germany

Volker Knecht

Current address: Department of Biomolecular Dynamics, Institute of Physics, Albert Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany

Affiliation Department of Theory and Bio-Systems, Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany

Andreas Herrmann

Affiliation Department of Biology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Eva Ehrentreich-Förster

Affiliation Department of Bioanalytics and Biosensorics, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Branch Bioanalytics and Bioprocesses, Potsdam, Germany

Frank F. Bier

Affiliations Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, Department of Biosystem Integration and Automation, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Branch Bioanalytics and Bioprocesses, Potsdam, Germany

Walter F. M. Stöcklein

walter.stoecklein@izi-bb.fraunhofer.de

Affiliation Department of Bioanalytics and Biosensorics, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Branch Bioanalytics and Bioprocesses, Potsdam, Germany

Competing Interests

There is a pending patent application for the peptides described in the manuscript. The application number is PCT/EP2015/077127. There are no other 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: FFB AH EEF WS. Performed the experiments: HM DL PK SDL. Analyzed the data: HM DL PK SDL VK WS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RV. Wrote the paper: WS AH DL.