About the Authors

Sabine Lindquist

lindquist.sabine@mh-hannover.de

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

Diana Karitkina

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

Kristina Langnaese

Affiliation Institute for Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

Anita Posevitz-Fejfar

Current address: Department of Neurology-Neuroinflammation, University Hospital of Münster, Münster, Germany

Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

Burkhart Schraven

Affiliations Institute of Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany, Department of Immune Control, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Ramnik Xavier

Affiliation Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Brian Seed

Affiliation Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jonathan A. Lindquist

Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL JAL. Performed the experiments: SL DK KL APF JAL RX. Analyzed the data: SL DK BSC RX BSE JAL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BSC RX BSE. Wrote the paper: SL JAL.