About the Authors

Ilseyar Akhmetzyanova

Contributed equally to this work with: Ilseyar Akhmetzyanova, Malgorzata Drabczyk

Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Malgorzata Drabczyk

Contributed equally to this work with: Ilseyar Akhmetzyanova, Malgorzata Drabczyk

Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

C. Preston Neff

Affiliation University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Kathrin Gibbert

Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Kirsten K. Dietze

Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Tanja Werner

Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Jia Liu

Affiliations Institute for Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital of Tonji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China

Lieping Chen

Affiliation Department of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Karl S. Lang

Affiliation Institute for Immunology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Brent E. Palmer

Affiliation University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Ulf Dittmer

Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Gennadiy Zelinskyy

gennadiy.zelinskyy@uni-due.de

Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IA MD CPN KKD JL BEP UD GZ. Performed the experiments: IA MD CPN KKD KG TW JL GZ. Analyzed the data: IA MD CPN KKD JL BEP UD GZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LC KSL. Wrote the paper: IA CPN BEP UD GZ.