About the Authors

Artur Kaul

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Sarah Stauffer

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah Stauffer, Carola Berger

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Carola Berger

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah Stauffer, Carola Berger

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Thomas Pertel

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Jennifer Schmitt

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Stephanie Kallis

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Margarita Zayas Lopez

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Volker Lohmann

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Jeremy Luban

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Ralf Bartenschlager

Ralf_Bartenschlager@med.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK MZL VL RB. Performed the experiments: AK SS CB TP JS SK MZL. Analyzed the data: AK SS CB MZL VL JL RB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TP JL. Wrote the paper: AK SS RB.