About the Authors

Aaron M. Nuss

Affiliation Department of Molecular Infection Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Ann Kathrin Heroven

Affiliation Department of Molecular Infection Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Barbara Waldmann

Affiliation Department of Molecular Infection Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Jan Reinkensmeier

Affiliation Faculty of Technology and Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld University, Germany

Michael Jarek

Affiliation Department of Genome Analytics, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Michael Beckstette

Affiliation Department of Molecular Infection Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Petra Dersch

petra.dersch@helmholtz-hzi.de

Affiliation Department of Molecular Infection Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PD AMN. Performed the experiments: AMN BW AKH. Analyzed the data: AMN AKH JR MB PD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JR MJ MB. Wrote the paper: AMN PD.