About the Authors

Nadine Honke

Contributed equally to this work with: Nadine Honke, Namir Shaabani, Philipp A. Lang, Karl S. Lang

Affiliations Institute of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Namir Shaabani

Contributed equally to this work with: Nadine Honke, Namir Shaabani, Philipp A. Lang, Karl S. Lang

Affiliations Institute of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Dong-Er Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Division of Biological Sciences and Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

George Iliakis

Affiliation Institute of Medical Radiation Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Haifeng C. Xu

Affiliations Institute of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Dieter Häussinger

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Mike Recher

Affiliation Clinic for Primary Immunodeficiencies, Medical Outpatient Unit, and Immunobiology, Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Max Löhning

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité – University Medicine Berlin and German Rheumatism Research Center (DRFZ), Berlin, Germany

Philipp A. Lang

Contributed equally to this work with: Nadine Honke, Namir Shaabani, Philipp A. Lang, Karl S. Lang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Karl S. Lang

Contributed equally to this work with: Nadine Honke, Namir Shaabani, Philipp A. Lang, Karl S. Lang

karlsebastian.lang@uk-essen.de

Affiliations Institute of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NH NS DH PAL KSL. Performed the experiments: NH NS HCX. Analyzed the data: NH NS MR ML KSL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DEZ GI. Wrote the paper: NH NS PAL KSL.