About the Authors

Michael Henkel

Affiliation Department of Botany, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

David Mitzner

Affiliation ViroLogik GmbH, Innovation Centre for Medical Technology and Pharmaceuticals (IZMP), Erlangen, Germany

Peter Henklein

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

Franz-Josef Meyer-Almes

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Hochschule Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Anna Moroni

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e IBF-CNR, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

Mattia L. DiFrancesco

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e IBF-CNR, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

Leonhard M. Henkes

Affiliation Department of Botany, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Michael Kreim

Affiliation Department of Botany, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Stefan M. Kast

Affiliation Physikalische Chemie III, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

Ulrich Schubert

Affiliations ViroLogik GmbH, Innovation Centre for Medical Technology and Pharmaceuticals (IZMP), Erlangen, Germany, Clinical and Molecular Virology, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Gerhard Thiel

thiel@bio.tu-darmstadt.de

Affiliation Department of Botany, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DM AM US GT. Performed the experiments: MH FJMA MLD LMH MK. Analyzed the data: MH MLD LMH MK SMK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DM PH. Wrote the paper: AM SMK US GT.