About the Authors

Wilhelm Ching

Contributed equally to this work with: Wilhelm Ching, Emre Koyuncu, Sonia Singh

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Emre Koyuncu

Contributed equally to this work with: Wilhelm Ching, Emre Koyuncu, Sonia Singh

Current address: Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Sonia Singh

Contributed equally to this work with: Wilhelm Ching, Emre Koyuncu, Sonia Singh

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Christina Arbelo-Roman

Affiliation Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Barbara Hartl

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Elisabeth Kremmer

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Immunology, Helmholtz Centre Munich, Munich, Germany

Thomas Speiseder

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Chris Meier

Affiliation Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Thomas Dobner

thomas.dobner@hpi.uni-hamburg.de

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: W. Ching, E. Koyuncu, S. Singh, B. Härtl, T. Speiseder, C. Meier, T. Dobner. Performed the experiments: W. Ching, E. Koyuncu, S. Singh, B. Härtl. Analyzed the data: W. Ching, E. Koyuncu, S. Singh, C. Meier, T. Dobner. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: W. Ching, E. Koyuncu, S. Singh, C. Arbelo-Roman, E. Kremmer, T. Speiseder, C. Meier. Wrote the paper: W. Ching, E. Koyuncu, S. Singh, T. Dobner.