About the Authors

Yaiza Fernández-García

Affiliations Department of Virology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Pharmacology, University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile

Juan Reguera

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Grenoble Outstation, Grenoble, France

Carola Busch

Affiliation Department of Virology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Gregor Witte

Affiliation Gene Center, Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

Oliberto Sánchez-Ramos

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile

Christian Betzel

Affiliation Laboratory for Structural Biology of Infection and Inflammation, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Stephen Cusack

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Grenoble Outstation, Grenoble, France

Stephan Günther

Affiliation Department of Virology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Sophia Reindl

Reindl@bnitm.de

Affiliation Department of Virology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: YFG, SG and SR have a patent pending named "Screening assay for inhibitors of hantavirus".

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OSR CBe SC SG SR. Performed the experiments: YFG JR CBu GW SR. Analyzed the data: YFG JR GW SR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JR GW. Wrote the paper: SG SR.