About the Authors

Annika Rennenberg

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Molecular Parasitology, Hamburg, Germany

Christine Lehmann

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Molecular Parasitology, Hamburg, Germany

Anna Heitmann

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Molecular Parasitology, Hamburg, Germany

Tina Witt

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Molecular Parasitology, Hamburg, Germany

Guido Hansen

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Center for Structural and Cell Biology in Medicine, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Krishna Nagarajan

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Center for Structural and Cell Biology in Medicine, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Christina Deschermeier

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Molecular Parasitology, Hamburg, Germany

Vito Turk

Affiliation Josef Stefan Institute, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Rolf Hilgenfeld

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Center for Structural and Cell Biology in Medicine, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Volker T. Heussler

heussler@bni-hamburg.de

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Molecular Parasitology, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AR VTH. Performed the experiments: AR CL AH TW CD. Analyzed the data: AR CL AH GH VTH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KN VT RH. Wrote the paper: AR VTH. Corrected the manuscript: GH VT RH.