About the Authors

Kirsten Richter

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Guillaume Perriard

Current address: Service d'Immunologie et Allergie-IAL, Départements de Médecine & des Laboratoires, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Rayk Behrendt

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Reto A. Schwendener

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Cancer Research, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Veronika Sexl

Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna,Vienna, Austria

Robert Dunn

Current address: Pfizer, San Diego, California, United States of America.

Affiliation Biogen Idec, San Diego, California, United States of America

Masahito Kamanaka

Current address: Arai Hospital, Kuki, Saitama, Japan.

Affiliation Department of Immunobiology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Richard A. Flavell

Affiliation Department of Immunobiology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Axel Roers

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Cancer Research, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Annette Oxenius

aoxenius@micro.biol.ethz.ch

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

All authors except RD have declared that no competing interests exist. RD was a Biogen Idec employee when providing a reagent to us. This does not alter our adherence to all PLoS Pathogens policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KR AO. Performed the experiments: KR GP RB. Analyzed the data: KR GP RB AO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RAS VS RD MK RAF AR. Wrote the paper: KR AO.