About the Authors

Anne Chevallereau

Contributed equally to this work with: Anne Chevallereau, Bob G. Blasdel

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Molecular Biology of the Gene in Extremophiles Unit, Department of Microbiology, Paris, France, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Cellule Pasteur, Paris, France

Bob G. Blasdel

Contributed equally to this work with: Anne Chevallereau, Bob G. Blasdel

Affiliation Laboratory of Gene Technology, Department of Biosystems, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Jeroen De Smet

Affiliation Laboratory of Gene Technology, Department of Biosystems, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Marc Monot

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Laboratoire Pathogenèse des bactéries anaérobies, Département de Microbiologie, Paris, France

Michael Zimmermann

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Maria Kogadeeva

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Uwe Sauer

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Peter Jorth

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Infectious Disease, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Marvin Whiteley

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Infectious Disease, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Laurent Debarbieux

laurent.debarbieux@pasteur.fr (LD); rob.lavigne@kuleuven.be (RL)

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Molecular Biology of the Gene in Extremophiles Unit, Department of Microbiology, Paris, France

Rob Lavigne

laurent.debarbieux@pasteur.fr (LD); rob.lavigne@kuleuven.be (RL)

Affiliation Laboratory of Gene Technology, Department of Biosystems, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC BGB JDS MZ MK US PJ MW LD RL. Performed the experiments: AC BGB JDS MZ MK US PJ MW. Analyzed the data: AC BGB JDS MM MZ MK US PJ MW LD RL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AC BGB JDS MM MZ MK US PJ MW LD RL. Wrote the paper: AC BGB JDS MM MZ MK US PJ MW LD RL.