About the Authors

Chee Han Lim

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Sabrina Voedisch

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Benjamin Wahl

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Syed Fazle Rouf

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Robert Geffers

Affiliation Department of Genome Analytics, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Mikael Rhen

Contributed equally to this work with: Mikael Rhen, Oliver Pabst

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Oliver Pabst

Contributed equally to this work with: Mikael Rhen, Oliver Pabst

opabst@ukaachen.de

Affiliations Institute of Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Institute of Molecular Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MR OP. Performed the experiments: CHL SV SFR. Analyzed the data: CHL SV BW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RG. Wrote the paper: MR OP.