About the Authors

Stefanie D. Roth

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefanie D. Roth, Jörg Schüttrumpf

Affiliation Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Immune Hematology, Clinics of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, German Red Cross Blood Donor Service Baden-Wuerttemberg - Hessen, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany

Jörg Schüttrumpf

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefanie D. Roth, Jörg Schüttrumpf

joerg_schuettrumpf@biotest.de

Current address: Biotest AG, Dreieich, Hesse, Germany

Affiliations Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Immune Hematology, Clinics of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, German Red Cross Blood Donor Service Baden-Wuerttemberg - Hessen, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany, Biomedical Research Institute Georg-Speyer-Haus, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany

Peter Milanov

Affiliation Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Immune Hematology, Clinics of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, German Red Cross Blood Donor Service Baden-Wuerttemberg - Hessen, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany

Daniela Abriss

Affiliation Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Immune Hematology, Clinics of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, German Red Cross Blood Donor Service Baden-Wuerttemberg - Hessen, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany

Christopher Ungerer

Affiliation Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Immune Hematology, Clinics of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, German Red Cross Blood Donor Service Baden-Wuerttemberg - Hessen, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany

Patricia Quade-Lyssy

Affiliation Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Immune Hematology, Clinics of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, German Red Cross Blood Donor Service Baden-Wuerttemberg - Hessen, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany

Jeremy C. Simpson

Affiliation School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Rainer Pepperkok

Affiliation Cell Biology and Biophysics Department, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Erhard Seifried

Affiliation Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Immune Hematology, Clinics of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, German Red Cross Blood Donor Service Baden-Wuerttemberg - Hessen, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany

Torsten Tonn

Current address: Institute for Transfusion Medicine, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, German Red Cross Blood Donor Service East, Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Affiliation Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Immune Hematology, Clinics of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, German Red Cross Blood Donor Service Baden-Wuerttemberg - Hessen, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany

Competing Interests

JS receives funding from Bayer not related with the presented study. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SR JS ES TT JCS RP. Performed the experiments: SR JS PM DA CU PQL. Analyzed the data: SR JS ES TT JCS RP. Wrote the paper: SR JS.