About the Authors

Rebecca A. Hall

Affiliations School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom, School of Medical Sciences, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Luisa De Sordi

Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom

Donna M. MacCallum

Affiliation School of Medical Sciences, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Hüsnü Topal

Affiliation Department of Physiological Chemistry, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Rebecca Eaton

Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom

James W. Bloor

Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom

Gary K. Robinson

Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom

Lonny R. Levin

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Jochen Buck

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Yue Wang

Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Proteos, Singapore

Neil A. R. Gow

Affiliation School of Medical Sciences, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Clemens Steegborn

Affiliations Department of Physiological Chemistry, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Department of Biochemistry, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

Fritz A. Mühlschlegel

F.A.Muhlschlegel@kent.ac.uk

Affiliations School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, Clinical Microbiology Service, William Harvey Hospital, Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RAH DMM GKR YW CS FAM. Performed the experiments: RAH LDS DMM HT RE YW. Analyzed the data: RAH LDS JWB GKR LRL JB YW NARG CS FAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JWB YW NARG. Wrote the paper: RAH LDS DMM GKR LRL JB CS FAM.