About the Authors

Eva Gückel

Affiliation Clinical Research Group at Nikolaus Fiebiger Center of Molecular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine 3, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Silke Frey

Affiliation Clinical Research Group at Nikolaus Fiebiger Center of Molecular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine 3, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Mario M. Zaiss

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine 3, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Georg Schett

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine 3, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Sankar Ghosh

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Reinhard E. Voll

reinhard.voll@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Affiliations Clinical Research Group at Nikolaus Fiebiger Center of Molecular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine 3, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, Department of Internal Medicine 3, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EG SF REV. Performed the experiments: EG SF MMZ. Analyzed the data: EG SF REV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG GS. Wrote the paper: EG REV. Edited the manuscript: SF GS SG REV.