About the Authors

Viviane Robert

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Institute of Biomembranes, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Elena B Volokhina

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Institute of Biomembranes, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Freya Senf

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Institute of Biomembranes, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Martine P Bos

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Institute of Biomembranes, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Patrick Van Gelder

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Interactions, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Free University Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

Jan Tommassen

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: j.p.m.tommassen@bio.uu.nl

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Institute of Biomembranes, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

VR, PVG, and JT conceived and designed the experiments. VR, EBV, and FS performed the experiments. VR, MPB, PVG, and JT analyzed the data. MPB and PVG contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. VR, MPB, and JT wrote the paper.