About the Authors

Christine Deffert

Christine.Deffert@hcuge.ch

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Medical Faculty and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Michela G. Schäppi

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Medical Faculty and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Jean-Claude Pache

Affiliation Division of Clinical Pathology, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Medical Faculty and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Julien Cachat

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Medical Faculty and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Dominique Vesin

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Medical Faculty and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Ruth Bisig

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Medical Faculty and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Xiaojuan Ma Mulone

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Medical Faculty and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Tiina Kelkka

Affiliations Section of Medical Inflammation Research, Medicity Research Laboratory, University of Turku, Finland, Section of Medical Inflammation Research, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden

Rikard Holmdahl

Affiliations Section of Medical Inflammation Research, Medicity Research Laboratory, University of Turku, Finland, Section of Medical Inflammation Research, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden

Irene Garcia

Contributed equally to this work with: Irene Garcia, Maria L. Olleros, Karl-Heinz Krause

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Medical Faculty and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Maria L. Olleros

Contributed equally to this work with: Irene Garcia, Maria L. Olleros, Karl-Heinz Krause

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Medical Faculty and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Karl-Heinz Krause

Contributed equally to this work with: Irene Garcia, Maria L. Olleros, Karl-Heinz Krause

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Medical Faculty and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CD MGS IG MLO KHK. Performed the experiments: CD JC DV RB XMM MLO. Analyzed the data: CD MGS JCP IG MLO KHK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TK RH IG KHK. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: CD MGS IG MLO KHK.