About the Authors

Tilo Beyer

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

Mandy Busse

Current address: Center for Pediatrics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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

Kroum Hristov

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

Slavyana Gurbiel

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

Michal Smida

Current address: Center for Molecular Medicine, Vienna, Austria

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

Utz-Uwe Haus

Current address: Department of Mathematics, Institute of Operations Research, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Affiliation Institute of Mathematical Optimization, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

Kathrin Ballerstein

Current address: Department of Mathematics, Institute of Operations Research, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Affiliation Institute of Mathematical Optimization, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

Frank Pfeuffer

Affiliation Institute of Mathematical Optimization, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

Robert Weismantel

Current address: Department of Mathematics, Institute of Operations Research, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

These authors are co-senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Institute of Mathematical Optimization, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

Burkhart Schraven

These authors are co-senior authors on this work.

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

Jonathan A. Lindquist

Jon.Lindquist@med.ovgu.de

These authors are co-senior authors on this work.

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: TB BS JAL. Performed the experiments: MB KH SG MS. Analyzed the data: TB UUH KB FP RW BS JAL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UUH FP RW. Wrote the paper: TB UUH KB JAL. Designed the software used in analysis: UUH FP.