About the Authors

Inken M. Beck

Affiliations Institute of Biotechnology, Prague, Czech Republic, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Prague, Czech Republic

René Rückert

Affiliation Research Center Borstel, Department of Immunology and Cell Biology, Borstel, Germany

Katja Brandt

Affiliation Research Center Borstel, Department of Immunology and Cell Biology, Borstel, Germany

Markus S. Mueller

Affiliation Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Thorsten Sadowski

Affiliation Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany

Rena Brauer

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Peter Schirmacher

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Rolf Mentlein

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Radislav Sedlacek

radislav.sedlacek@img.cas.cz

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Genetics, Prague, Czech Republic, Department of Biochemistry, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS. Performed the experiments: RS IB TS RB RM RR KB MM. Analyzed the data: RS IB TS PS RR KB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS. Wrote the paper: RS IB.