About the Authors

Sonja Grosskinsky

Affiliation Infectious Immunology, Institute for Immunology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Melanie Schott

Affiliation Infectious Immunology, Institute for Immunology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Christiane Brenner

Affiliation Infectious Immunology, Institute for Immunology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Sally J. Cutler

Affiliation School of Health and Bioscience, University of East London, Stratford, London, United Kingdom

Peter Kraiczy

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Peter F. Zipfel

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Leibniz-Institute for Natural Products Research, Jena, Germany

Markus M. Simon

Affiliation Metschnikoff Laboratory, Max-Planck-Institute for Immunobiology, Freiburg, Germany

Reinhard Wallich

wallich@uni-hd.de

Affiliation Infectious Immunology, Institute for Immunology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG RW. Performed the experiments: SG MS CB PFZ. Analyzed the data: SG CB PFZ RW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJC PK PFZ MMS. Wrote the paper: SG SJC MMS RW.