About the Authors

Simone Thomas

simone.thomas@ukr.de

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine III, Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, Regensburg Center of Interventional Immunology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, Department of Internal Medicine III, Hematology, Oncology and Pneumology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Sebastian Klobuch

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine III, Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, Department of Internal Medicine III, Hematology, Oncology and Pneumology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Jürgen Podlech

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

Bodo Plachter

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

Petra Hoffmann

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine III, Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, Regensburg Center of Interventional Immunology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Angelique Renzaho

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

Matthias Theobald

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Hematology, Oncology and Pneumology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Matthias J. Reddehase

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthias J. Reddehase, Wolfgang Herr, Niels A. W. Lemmermann

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

Wolfgang Herr

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthias J. Reddehase, Wolfgang Herr, Niels A. W. Lemmermann

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine III, Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, Regensburg Center of Interventional Immunology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, Department of Internal Medicine III, Hematology, Oncology and Pneumology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Niels A. W. Lemmermann

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthias J. Reddehase, Wolfgang Herr, Niels A. W. Lemmermann

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST MJR WH NAWL. Performed the experiments: ST SK JP AR NAWL. Analyzed the data: ST SK JP PH MJR WH NAWL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BP PH MT. Wrote the paper: ST MJR WH NAWL. Critically reviewed the manuscript: BP PH.