About the Authors

Bastian Jöhnk

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany

Özgür Bayram

Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany, Department of Biology, Maynooth University, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland

Anja Abelmann

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany

Thorsten Heinekamp

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Applied Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (HKI), Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

Derek J. Mattern

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Applied Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (HKI), Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

Axel A. Brakhage

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Applied Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (HKI), Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

Ilse D. Jacobsen

Affiliation Research Group Microbial Immunology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (HKI), Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

Oliver Valerius

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany

Gerhard H. Braus

gbraus@gwdg.de

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BJ GHB ÖB. Formal analysis: BJ OV GHB. Funding acquisition: GHB. Investigation: BJ AA TH DJM IDJ. Methodology: BJ ÖB OV AA. Project administration: GHB. Resources: GHB ÖB AAB TH IDJ. Supervision: GHB ÖB. Validation: BJ ÖB OV AA TH DJM AAB GHB. Visualization: BJ GHB. Writing – original draft: BJ GHB ÖB OV TH. Writing – review & editing: BJ GHB ÖB OV TH AA.