About the Authors

Lea A. I. Vaas
Johannes Sikorski
Victoria Michael
Markus Göker

markus.goeker@dsmz.de

Affiliation DSMZ – German Collection for Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

Hans-Peter Klenk

Competing Interests

LV, JS, HPK, VM, and MG are employees of Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH (DSMZ). The DSMZ is an independent, non-profit organisation. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. The authors adhere to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LV JS. Performed the experiments: VM. Analyzed the data: LV MG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HPK MG JS. Wrote the paper: LV MG JS HPK.