About the Authors

Sumit Deswal

Affiliations Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, and Faculty of Biology, Biology III, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine, Freiburg, Germany

Anna K. Schulze

Affiliation Research Group Modeling of Biological Systems, German Cancer Research Center and BioQuant Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Thomas Höfer

Affiliation Research Group Modeling of Biological Systems, German Cancer Research Center and BioQuant Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Wolfgang W. A. Schamel

schamel@immunbio.mpg.de

Affiliations Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, and Faculty of Biology, Biology III, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Centre of Chronic Immunodeficiency (CCI), University Medical Center Freiburg, and University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SD WWAS. Performed the experiments: SD. Analyzed the data: SD AKS TH WWAS. Wrote the paper: SD AKS TH WWAS. Performed the mathematical modeling: AKS TH.