About the Authors

Johannes Taubert

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 50, 30167, Hannover, Germany

Bo Hou

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 50, 30167, Hannover, Germany

H. Jelger Risselada

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077, Göttingen, Germany

Denise Mehner

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 50, 30167, Hannover, Germany

Heinrich Lünsdorf

Affiliation Helmholtz Centre of Infection Research, Inhoffenstraße 7, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany

Helmut Grubmüller

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077, Göttingen, Germany

Thomas Brüser

brueser@ifmb.uni-hannover.de

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 50, 30167, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JT BH TB. Performed the experiments: JT. Analyzed the data: JT BH TB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DM. Wrote the paper: TB. Molecular dynamics simulations: HJR HG. Electron microscopy: HL.