About the Authors

Gang Zhao

Affiliation Department of Systems Immunology and Braunschweig Integrated Centre of Systems Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Gitanjali Dharmadhikari

Affiliation Centre for Biomolecular Interactions Bremen, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Kathrin Maedler

Affiliation Centre for Biomolecular Interactions Bremen, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Michael Meyer-Hermann

michael.meyer-hermann@theoretical-biology.de

Affiliations Department of Systems Immunology and Braunschweig Integrated Centre of Systems Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, Institute of Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GZ MMH. Performed the experiments: GZ GD KM MMH. Analyzed the data: GZ GD KM MMH. Wrote the paper: GZ GD KM MMH.