About the Authors

Sabrina Sell

‡ SS and MD contributed equally to this work. MM and THW also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Zentrum für Molekulare Medizin, Department Biologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Monika Dietz

‡ SS and MD contributed equally to this work. MM and THW also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Andrea Schneider

Affiliation Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Zentrum für Molekulare Medizin, Department Biologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Rafaela Holtappels

Affiliation Institut für Virologie und Forschungszentrum für Immuntherapie (FZI), Universitätsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Michael Mach

‡ SS and MD contributed equally to this work. MM and THW also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Thomas H. Winkler

thomas.winkler@fau.de

‡ SS and MD contributed equally to this work. MM and THW also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Zentrum für Molekulare Medizin, Department Biologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM THW. Performed the experiments: SS MD AS RH THW. Analyzed the data: SS MD RH MM THW. Wrote the paper: MM THW.