About the Authors

Stefan Ebert

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Ebert, Marc Becker

Affiliation Institute for Virology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Marc Becker

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Ebert, Marc Becker

Affiliation Institute for Immunology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Niels A. W. Lemmermann

Affiliation Institute for Virology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Julia K. Büttner

Affiliation Institute for Virology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Anastasija Michel

Affiliation Institute for Immunology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Christian Taube

Affiliation Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Jürgen Podlech

Affiliation Institute for Virology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Verena Böhm

Affiliation Institute for Virology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Kirsten Freitag

Affiliation Institute for Virology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Doris Thomas

Affiliation Institute for Virology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Rafaela Holtappels

RH and MJR also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute for Virology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Matthias J. Reddehase

RH and MJR also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute for Virology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Michael Stassen

stassenm@uni-mainz.de

Affiliation Institute for Immunology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RH MJR MS. Performed the experiments: SE MB NAWL JKB AM JP VB KF DT. Analyzed the data: SE MB NAWL JP KF RH MJR MS. Wrote the paper: MJR MS. Provided specific expertise on lung immunology: CT.