About the Authors

Felix R. Stahl

stahl.felix@mh-hannover.de (FRS); foerster.reinhold@mh-hannover.de (RF)

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Katrin Heller

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Stephan Halle

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Kirsten A. Keyser

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Andreas Busche

Current address: Merck Animal Health, Burgwedel Biotech GmbH, Burgwedel, Germany.

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Anja Marquardt

Current address: Whatman GmbH, GE Healthcare Life Sciences, Dassel, Germany.

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Karen Wagner

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Jasmin Boelter

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Yvonne Bischoff

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Elisabeth Kremmer

Affiliation Helmholtz Zentrum München, Institut für Molekulare Immunologie, München, Germany

Ramon Arens

Affiliation Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Martin Messerle

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Reinhold Förster

stahl.felix@mh-hannover.de (FRS); foerster.reinhold@mh-hannover.de (RF)

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FRS RF. Performed the experiments: FRS KH JB. Analyzed the data: FRS RF MM SH YB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KAK AB AM KW MM SH RA EK. Wrote the paper: FRS RF MM.