About the Authors

Frederik Walter

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ FW and EW share first authorship on this work. RS and SS are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Kiel University and University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Elsa Winter

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ FW and EW share first authorship on this work. RS and SS are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Kiel University and University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Sascha Rahn

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

Judith Heidland

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

Saskia Meier

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

Anna-Maria Struzek

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

Marcus Lettau

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Kiel University and UKSH Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Lisa-Marie Philipp

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Kiel University and University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Silje Beckinger

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Kiel University and University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Lilli Otto

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Kiel University and University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Julia Luisa Möller

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Ole Helm

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Kiel University and University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Daniela Wesch

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Kiel University and UKSH Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Regina Scherließ

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ FW and EW share first authorship on this work. RS and SS are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

Susanne Sebens

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

susanne.sebens@email.uni-kiel.de

‡ FW and EW share first authorship on this work. RS and SS are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Kiel University and University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Competing Interests

R.S. is named as co-inventor in a patent application covering antigen-loaded chitosan nanoparticles for immunotherapy (WO2015/185180A1). The author is not employed by Merck KGaA or currently receives funding related to the patent. All other authors declare no conflict of interest.