About the Authors

Valerii M. Sukhorukov

vsukhorukov@yahoo.com (VMS); Michael.Meyer-Hermann@helmholtz-hzi.de (MMH)

Affiliations Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Daniel Dikov

Affiliations Cluster of Excellence “Macromolecular Complexes”, Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Mitochondrial Biology, Medical School, Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Andreas S. Reichert

Affiliations Cluster of Excellence “Macromolecular Complexes”, Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Mitochondrial Biology, Medical School, Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Michael Meyer-Hermann

vsukhorukov@yahoo.com (VMS); Michael.Meyer-Hermann@helmholtz-hzi.de (MMH)

Affiliations Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, Institute for Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Technical University Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VMS DD ASR MMH. Performed the experiments: DD. Analyzed the data: VMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VMS ASR MMH. Wrote the paper: VMS ASR MMH. Designed the software used in analysis: VMS.