About the Authors

Vladimir Ermolayev

Affiliations Molecular Microscopy Group, DFG Rudolf Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Toni Cathomen

Current address: Hannover Medical School, Department of Experimental Hematology, Hannover, Germany

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute of Infectious Diseases, Charité Medical School, Berlin, Germany

Julia Merk

Affiliation Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Mike Friedrich

Affiliation Molecular Microscopy Group, DFG Rudolf Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Wolfgang Härtig

Affiliation University of Leipzig, Paul Flechsig Institute for Brain Research, Leipzig, Germany

Gregory S. Harms

gregory.harms@virchow.uni-wuerzburg.de (GSH); klm@vim.uni-wuerzburg.de (MAK)

Affiliation Molecular Microscopy Group, DFG Rudolf Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Michael A. Klein

gregory.harms@virchow.uni-wuerzburg.de (GSH); klm@vim.uni-wuerzburg.de (MAK)

Affiliation Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Eckhard Flechsig

Current address: Biotest AG, Dreieich, Germany

Affiliation Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VE GSH EF. Performed the experiments: VE JM MF. Analyzed the data: VE GSH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VE TC WH GSH. Wrote the paper: VE GSH MK.