About the Authors

Edze R. Westra

Contributed equally to this work with: Edze R. Westra, Ekaterina Semenova

westra.edze@gmail.com (ERW); severik@waksman.rutgers.edu (KS)

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Ekaterina Semenova

Contributed equally to this work with: Edze R. Westra, Ekaterina Semenova

Affiliation Waksman Institute, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Kirill A. Datsenko

Affiliations Waksman Institute, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Ryan N. Jackson

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Blake Wiedenheft

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Konstantin Severinov

westra.edze@gmail.com (ERW); severik@waksman.rutgers.edu (KS)

Affiliations Waksman Institute, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers, The State University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America, Institutes of Molecular Genetics and Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Stan J. J. Brouns

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ERW ES KS SJJB. Performed the experiments: ERW ES KAD. Analyzed the data: ERW ES KS SJJB RNJ BW. Wrote the paper: ERW.