About the Authors

B. David Persson

Contributed equally to this work with: B. David Persson, Nikolaus B. Schmitz

Current address: Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Nikolaus B. Schmitz

Contributed equally to this work with: B. David Persson, Nikolaus B. Schmitz

Current address: ETH, Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Zürich, Switzerland

Affiliation University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

César Santiago

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CSIC, Campus Universidad Autonóma, Madrid, Spain

Georg Zocher

Affiliation University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Mykol Larvie

Current address: Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Laboratory of Developmental Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ulrike Scheu

Affiliation University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

José M. Casasnovas

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CSIC, Campus Universidad Autonóma, Madrid, Spain

Thilo Stehle

thilo.stehle@uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliations University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BDP JMC TS. Performed the experiments: BDP NBS CS ML US. Analyzed the data: BDP NBS GZ JMC TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CS ML. Wrote the paper: BDP NBS JMC TS.