About the Authors

Helga Schneider

Contributed equally to this work with: Helga Schneider, Hongyan Wang

Affiliations Cell Signalling Section, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Molecular Immunology Section, Division of Investigative Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Hongyan Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Helga Schneider, Hongyan Wang

Affiliations Molecular Immunology Section, Division of Investigative Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Monika Raab

Affiliations Molecular Immunology Section, Division of Investigative Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Medical School, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany

Elke Valk

Affiliations Cell Signalling Section, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Molecular Immunology Section, Division of Investigative Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Xin Smith

Affiliation Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Matt Lovatt

Affiliation Molecular Immunology Section, Division of Investigative Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Zhonglin Wu

Affiliations Cell Signalling Section, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Molecular Immunology Section, Division of Investigative Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Braudel Maqueira-Iglesias

Affiliation Cell Signalling Section, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Klaus Strebhardt

Affiliation Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Medical School, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany

Christopher E. Rudd

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: cer51@cam.ac.uk

Affiliations Cell Signalling Section, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Molecular Immunology Section, Division of Investigative Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HW EV XS ZW HS MR ML. Performed the experiments: HW EV XS ZW HS MR ML. Analyzed the data: EV XS ZW ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HW KS HS BM. Wrote the paper: CR.