About the Authors

Niels A. W. Lemmermann

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

Astrid Krmpotic

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Jürgen Podlech

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

Ilija Brizic

Affiliations School of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia, Max von Pettenkofer-Institute for Virology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Adrian Prager

Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer-Institute for Virology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Heiko Adler

Affiliation Research Unit Gene Vectors, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Munich, Germany

Astrid Karbach

Affiliation Institute for Clinical and Molecular Virology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Yiquan Wu

Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer-Institute for Virology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Stipan Jonjic

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Matthias J. Reddehase

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthias J. Reddehase, Barbara Adler

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

Barbara Adler

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthias J. Reddehase, Barbara Adler

adler_b@mvp.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer-Institute for Virology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NAWL AK JP SJ MJR BA. Performed the experiments: NAWL AK JP IB AP HA YW. Analyzed the data: NAWL AK JP SJ MJR BA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK. Wrote the paper: BA MJR NAWL.