About the Authors

Birgit Rabe

Contributed equally to this work with: Birgit Rabe, Mildred Delaleau

Current address: AiCuris, Wuppertal, Germany

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Mildred Delaleau

Contributed equally to this work with: Birgit Rabe, Mildred Delaleau

Affiliation UMR 5234 CNRS-University Bordeaux 2 MCMP, Bordeaux, France

Andreas Bischof

Current address: Allianz SE, München, Germany

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Michael Foss

Affiliation UMR 5234 CNRS-University Bordeaux 2 MCMP, Bordeaux, France

Irina Sominskaya

Affiliation Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Riga, Latvia

Paul Pumpens

Affiliation Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Riga, Latvia

Christian Cazenave

Affiliation UMR 5234 CNRS-University Bordeaux 2 MCMP, Bordeaux, France

Michel Castroviejo

Affiliation UMR 5234 CNRS-University Bordeaux 2 MCMP, Bordeaux, France

Michael Kann

michael.kann@u-bordeaux2.fr

Affiliations Institute of Virology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, UMR 5234 CNRS-University Bordeaux 2 MCMP, Bordeaux, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC MC MK. Performed the experiments: BR MD AB MF. Analyzed the data: PP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IS PP. Wrote the paper: MK.