About the Authors

Sabrina Voedisch

Affiliations Department of Airway Immunology, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine; Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Hannover, Germany, Department of Immunology, Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany

Sabine Rochlitzer

Affiliation Department of Airway Immunology, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine; Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Hannover, Germany

Tibor Z. Veres

Affiliations Department of Airway Immunology, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine; Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Hannover, Germany, University of Turku, MediCity Research Laboratory, Turku, Finland

Emma Spies

Affiliations Department of Airway Immunology, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine; Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Hannover, Germany, Department of Immunology, Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany

Armin Braun

armin.braun@item.fraunhofer.de

Affiliations Department of Airway Immunology, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine; Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Hannover, Germany, Department of Immunology, Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SV SR TV AB. Performed the experiments: SV ES. Analyzed the data: SV TV ES. Wrote the paper: SV SR.