About the Authors

Elisabeth Sonnleitner

karine.lapouge@unil.ch (KL); Sonnleitner@univie.ac.at (ES)

Affiliation Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, Immunobiology and Genetics, University of Vienna, Dr. Bohrgasse 9, Vienna, Austria

Martina Valentini

Affiliation Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Nicolas Wenner

Affiliation Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Feth el Zahar Haichar

Current address: Ecologie Microbienne, UMR CNRS 5557, University Claude Bernard-Lyon 1, Vileurbanne, France

Affiliation Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Dieter Haas

Affiliation Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Karine Lapouge

karine.lapouge@unil.ch (KL); Sonnleitner@univie.ac.at (ES)

Affiliation Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ES MV NW FZH DH KL. Performed the experiments: ES MV NW FZH KL. Analyzed the data: ES MV NW FZH DH KL. Wrote the paper: ES DH KL.