About the Authors

Joël T. van Mierlo

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Nijmegen Institute for Infection, Inflammation and Immunity, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Alfred W. Bronkhorst

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Nijmegen Institute for Infection, Inflammation and Immunity, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Gijs J. Overheul

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Nijmegen Institute for Infection, Inflammation and Immunity, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Sajna A. Sadanandan

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Jens-Ola Ekström

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Marco Heestermans

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Nijmegen Institute for Infection, Inflammation and Immunity, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Dan Hultmark

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Institute of Biomedical Technology, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

Christophe Antoniewski

Affiliation Drosophila Genetics and Epigenetics, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI, CNRS UMR 7622 - Biologie du Développement, Paris, France

Ronald P. van Rij

r.vanrij@ncmls.ru.nl

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Nijmegen Institute for Infection, Inflammation and Immunity, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JTvM CA RPvR. Performed the experiments: JTvM AWB GJO SAS JE MH. Analyzed the data: JTvM AWB CA RPvR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SAS JE DH. Wrote the paper: JTvM RPvR. Bioinformatic analyses: CA. Edited the manuscript: JTvM JE DH CA RPvR.