About the Authors

Veronika Kucharova

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Trine Aakvik Strand

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, Trondheim, Norway

Eivind Almaas

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Adrian E. Naas

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Trygve Brautaset

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, Trondheim, Norway

Svein Valla

svein.valla@biotech.ntnu.no

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VK TB SV. Performed the experiments: VK TAS AN. Analyzed the data: VK EA TB SV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TB SV. Wrote the paper: VK SV. TB and SV wrote the funding application. VK was a PhD student supervised by SV.