About the Authors

Vera Kozjak-Pavlovic

Contributed equally to this work with: Vera Kozjak-Pavlovic, Elke A. Dian-Lothrop, Michael Meinecke, Oliver Kepp

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany, Biocenter, Chair of Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Elke A. Dian-Lothrop

Contributed equally to this work with: Vera Kozjak-Pavlovic, Elke A. Dian-Lothrop, Michael Meinecke, Oliver Kepp

Affiliation Institute for Physiological Chemistry, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Michael Meinecke

Contributed equally to this work with: Vera Kozjak-Pavlovic, Elke A. Dian-Lothrop, Michael Meinecke, Oliver Kepp

Affiliation Department of Biology/Chemistry, Division of Biophysics, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Oliver Kepp

Contributed equally to this work with: Vera Kozjak-Pavlovic, Elke A. Dian-Lothrop, Michael Meinecke, Oliver Kepp

Current address: INSERM U848, Institut Gustav Roussy, Faculté Sud-Université Paris 11, Villejuif, France

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Katharina Ross

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Krishnaraj Rajalingam

Current address: Emmy Noether Group of DFG, Institut für Biochemie II, Goethe University Medical School, Frankfurt, Germany

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Anke Harsman

Affiliation Protein Purification Core Facility, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Eva Hauf

Affiliation Microscopy Core Facility, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Volker Brinkmann

Affiliation Microscopy Core Facility, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Dirk Günther

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Ines Herrmann

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Robert Hurwitz

Affiliation Protein Purification Core Facility, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Joachim Rassow

Affiliation Institute for Physiological Chemistry, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Richard Wagner

Affiliation Department of Biology/Chemistry, Division of Biophysics, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Thomas Rudel

thomas.rudel@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany, Biocenter, Chair of Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VKP EADL MM OK KR JR RW TR. Performed the experiments: VKP EADL MM OK AH EH IH. Analyzed the data: VKP EADL MM OK KR AH EH IH JR RW TR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KR VB DG RH. Wrote the paper: VKP JR RW TR.