About the Authors

Harald Bielig

Contributed equally to this work with: Harald Bielig, Katja Lautz

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Cologne, Germany

Katja Lautz

Contributed equally to this work with: Harald Bielig, Katja Lautz

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Cologne, Germany

Peter R. Braun

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany, Steinbeis-Innovationszentrum Center for Systems Biomedicine, Falkensee, Germany

Maureen Menning

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Cologne, Germany

Nikolaus Machuy

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Christine Brügmann

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Cologne, Germany

Sandra Barisic

Affiliation Institute of Cell Biology and Immunology, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Stephan A. Eisler

Affiliation Institute of Cell Biology and Immunology, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Maria Andree

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Cologne, Germany

Birte Zurek

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Cologne, Germany

Hamid Kashkar

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Cologne, Germany

Philippe J. Sansonetti

Affiliations Unité de Pathogénie Microbienne Moléculaire, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, INSERM U786, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, Microbiologie et Maladies Infectieuses, Collège de France, Paris, France

Angelika Hausser

Affiliation Institute of Cell Biology and Immunology, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Thomas F. Meyer

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Thomas A. Kufer

thomas.kufer@uk-koeln.de

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Cologne, Germany, University of Hohenheim, Institute of Nutritional Medicine, Stuttgart, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TAK AH NM TFM. Performed the experiments: HB KL MM CB SAE SB. Analyzed the data: TAK AH PRB NM TFM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA HK PJS BZ. Wrote the paper: TAK AH HB KL.