About the Authors

Silvia Stockinger

Affiliation Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Renate Kastner

Contributed equally to this work with: Renate Kastner, Elisabeth Kernbauer

Affiliation Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Elisabeth Kernbauer

Contributed equally to this work with: Renate Kastner, Elisabeth Kernbauer

Affiliation Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Andreas Pilz

Affiliation Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Sandra Westermayer

Affiliation Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Benjamin Reutterer

Affiliation Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Didier Soulat

Affiliation Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Gabriele Stengl

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria

Claus Vogl

Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Theresa Frenz

Affiliation Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Langen, Germany

Zoe Waibler

Affiliation Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Langen, Germany

Tadatsugu Taniguchi

Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Thomas Rülicke

Affiliation Biomodels Austria, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Ulrich Kalinke

Affiliations Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Langen, Germany, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, Hanover, Germany

Mathias Müller

Affiliations Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria, Biomodels Austria, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Thomas Decker

thomas.decker@univie.ac.at

Affiliation Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS TD. Performed the experiments: SS RK EK AP SW BR DS GS TF ZW. Analyzed the data: SS RK EK CV TD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TT TR UK MM TD. Wrote the paper: TD.