About the Authors

Mark Throsby

Current address: Merus BV, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Affiliation Crucell Holland BV, Leiden, The Netherlands

Edward van den Brink

Current address: Genmab, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Affiliation Crucell Holland BV, Leiden, The Netherlands

Mandy Jongeneelen

Affiliation Crucell Holland BV, Leiden, The Netherlands

Leo L. M. Poon

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

Philippe Alard

Affiliation Algonomics NV, Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium

Lisette Cornelissen

Affiliation Central Veterinary Institute, Wageningen University, Lelystad, The Netherlands

Arjen Bakker

Current address: AIMM BV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Affiliation Crucell Holland BV, Leiden, The Netherlands

Freek Cox

Current address: Merus BV, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Affiliation Crucell Holland BV, Leiden, The Netherlands

Els van Deventer

Affiliation Crucell Holland BV, Leiden, The Netherlands

Yi Guan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

Jindrich Cinatl

Affiliation Institute for Medical Virology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Jan ter Meulen

Current address: Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Crucell Holland BV, Leiden, The Netherlands

Ignace Lasters

Affiliation Algonomics NV, Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium

Rita Carsetti

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell Biology, Bambino Gesu Children's Research Hospital, Rome, Italy

Malik Peiris

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

John de Kruif

Current address: Merus BV, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Affiliation Crucell Holland BV, Leiden, The Netherlands

Jaap Goudsmit

j.goudsmit@crucell.com

Affiliation Crucell Holland BV, Leiden, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

MT., EvdB, MJ, AB, FC, ED, JtM., JdK. and JG are employees of Crucell Holland BV. PA and IL are employees of Algonomics NV.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MT EvdB LLMP LC JtM RC JSMP JdK. Performed the experiments: EvdB MJ PA AB FC EvD. Analyzed the data: MT EvdB LLMP PA LC AB FC EvD JtM IL JSMP JdK JG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YG JC RC. Wrote the paper: MT JG.