About the Authors

Simon Runge

Contributed equally to this work with: Simon Runge, Konstantin M. J. Sparrer, Charlotte Lässig, Karl-Peter Hopfner

Affiliation Gene Center and Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany

Konstantin M. J. Sparrer

Contributed equally to this work with: Simon Runge, Konstantin M. J. Sparrer, Charlotte Lässig, Karl-Peter Hopfner

Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer-Institute, Gene Center, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany

Charlotte Lässig

Contributed equally to this work with: Simon Runge, Konstantin M. J. Sparrer, Charlotte Lässig, Karl-Peter Hopfner

Affiliation Gene Center and Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany

Katharina Hembach

Affiliation Gene Center and Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany

Alina Baum

Affiliation Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Adolfo García-Sastre

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Johannes Söding

Affiliations Gene Center and Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany, Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich, Munich, Germany

Karl-Klaus Conzelmann

Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer-Institute, Gene Center, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany

Karl-Peter Hopfner

Contributed equally to this work with: Simon Runge, Konstantin M. J. Sparrer, Charlotte Lässig, Karl-Peter Hopfner

hopfner@genzentrum.lmu.de

Affiliations Gene Center and Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany, Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SR KMJS CL. Performed the experiments: SR KMJS CL AB. Analyzed the data: SR CL KH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KPH KKC AGS JS. Wrote the paper: SR KMJS CL KPH KKC AGS. Designed the bioinformatical tools used in analysis: KH JS.