About the Authors

Özgür Bayram

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany

Özlem Sarikaya Bayram

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany

Yasar Luqman Ahmed

Affiliation Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany

Jun-ichi Maruyama

Current address: Department of Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany

Oliver Valerius

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany

Silvio O. Rizzoli

Affiliation European Neuroscience Institute, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Center for Molecular Physiology of the Brain/Excellence Cluster 171, Göttingen, Germany

Ralf Ficner

Affiliation Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany

Stefan Irniger

gbraus@gwdg.de (GHB); sirnige@gwdg.de (SI)

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany

Gerhard H. Braus

gbraus@gwdg.de (GHB); sirnige@gwdg.de (SI)

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ÖB. Performed the experiments: ÖB ÖSB YLA OV J-iM SOR. Analyzed the data: ÖB SI RF GHB SOR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SI RF GHB. Wrote the paper: ÖB SI GHB.