About the Authors

Kristin Stieler

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Virology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Sarah Schindler

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology and Virology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Heinrich-Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Thorsten Schlomm

Affiliation Martini-Clinic, Prostate Cancer Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Oliver Hohn

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Center for HIV and Retrovirology, Berlin, Germany

Norbert Bannert

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Center for HIV and Retrovirology, Berlin, Germany

Ronald Simon

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Sarah Minner

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Michael Schindler

Affiliation Heinrich-Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Nicole Fischer

nfischer@uke.de

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Virology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KS MS NF. Performed the experiments: KS SS SM OH NF. Analyzed the data: NF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS MS OH NB NF RS SM. Wrote the paper: NF.