About the Authors

Birte Kretschmer

Contributed equally to this work with: Birte Kretschmer, Katja Lüthje

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Katja Lüthje

Contributed equally to this work with: Birte Kretschmer, Katja Lüthje

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Andreas H. Guse

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Svenja Ehrlich

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Friedrich Koch-Nolte

Affiliation Institute for Immunology, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Friedrich Haag

Affiliation Institute for Immunology, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Bernhard Fleischer

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Institute for Immunology, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Minka Breloer

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Breloer@bni-hamburg.de

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG BF MB. Performed the experiments: BK KL SE. Analyzed the data: AG MB BK KL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FK FH. Wrote the paper: BF MB.