About the Authors

Carina Banning

Affiliation Heinrich-Pette-Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology, Hamburg, Germany

Jörg Votteler

Affiliation Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Dirk Hoffmann

Affiliation Heinrich-Pette-Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology, Hamburg, Germany

Herwig Koppensteiner

Affiliation Heinrich-Pette-Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology, Hamburg, Germany

Martin Warmer

Affiliation Heinrich-Pette-Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology, Hamburg, Germany

Rudolph Reimer

Affiliation Heinrich-Pette-Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology, Hamburg, Germany

Frank Kirchhoff

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Ulrich Schubert

Affiliation Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Joachim Hauber

Affiliation Heinrich-Pette-Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology, Hamburg, Germany

Michael Schindler

michael.schindler@hpi.uni-hamburg.de

Affiliation Heinrich-Pette-Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB JV DH MS. Performed the experiments: CB JV DH HK MW MS. Analyzed the data: CB JV DH HK MW MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RR FK US JH MS. Wrote the paper: MS.