About the Authors

Omar Sharif

omar.sharif@meduniwien.ac.at (OS); sylvia.knapp@meduniwien.ac.at (SK)

Affiliations CeMM - Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, Department of Medicine I, Laboratory of Infection Biology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Riem Gawish

Affiliations CeMM - Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, Department of Medicine I, Laboratory of Infection Biology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Joanna M. Warszawska

Affiliations CeMM - Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, Department of Medicine I, Laboratory of Infection Biology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Rui Martins

Affiliations CeMM - Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, Department of Medicine I, Laboratory of Infection Biology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Karin Lakovits

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, Laboratory of Infection Biology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Anastasiya Hladik

Affiliations CeMM - Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, Department of Medicine I, Laboratory of Infection Biology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Bianca Doninger

Affiliations CeMM - Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, Department of Medicine I, Laboratory of Infection Biology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Julia Brunner

Affiliations CeMM - Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, Department of Medicine I, Laboratory of Infection Biology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Ana Korosec

Affiliations CeMM - Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, Department of Medicine I, Laboratory of Infection Biology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Roland E. Schwarzenbacher

Affiliations CeMM - Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, Department of Medicine I, Laboratory of Infection Biology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Tiina Berg

Affiliation CeMM - Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Robert Kralovics

Affiliation CeMM - Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Jacques Colinge

Affiliation CeMM - Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Ildiko Mesteri

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Susan Gilfillan

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Andrea Salmaggi

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Istituto Nazionale Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milano, Italy

Admar Verschoor

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany

Marco Colonna

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Sylvia Knapp

omar.sharif@meduniwien.ac.at (OS); sylvia.knapp@meduniwien.ac.at (SK)

Affiliations CeMM - Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, Department of Medicine I, Laboratory of Infection Biology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OS SK. Performed the experiments: OS RG JMW RM KL AH BD JB AK RES TB RK. Analyzed the data: OS SK JC RM IM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG AS AV MC. Wrote the paper: OS SK.