About the Authors

Armin Gerbitz

Contributed equally to this work with: Armin Gerbitz, Madhusudhanan Sukumar

armin.gerbitz@uk-erlangen.de

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Charité Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Hematology and Oncology, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Madhusudhanan Sukumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Armin Gerbitz, Madhusudhanan Sukumar

Current address: Surgery Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology and Tumor Genetics, Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany

Florian Helm

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Charité Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Andrea Wilke

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Charité Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Christian Friese

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Charité Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Cornelia Fahrenwaldt

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Charité Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Hematology and Oncology, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Frank M. Lehmann

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology and Tumor Genetics, Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany

Christoph Loddenkemper

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Charité Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Thomas Kammertoens

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Charité Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Josef Mautner

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Technical University (TU) Munich, Munich, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Group Pediatric Tumor Immunology, TU Munich and Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany

Clemens A. Schmitt

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, Charite Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Thomas Blankenstein

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Charité Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Georg W. Bornkamm

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology and Tumor Genetics, Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG FL TK JM GB. Performed the experiments: AG MS FH AW C. Friese1 C. Fahrenwaldt CL. Analyzed the data: AG MS FH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CS FL. Wrote the paper: AG TK JM TB GB.