About the Authors

Philipp Gierok

Contributed equally to this work with: Philipp Gierok, Christian Kohler

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University, Greifswald, Germany

Christian Kohler

Contributed equally to this work with: Philipp Gierok, Christian Kohler

Affiliation Friedrich Loeffler Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Ivo Steinmetz

Affiliation Friedrich Loeffler Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Michael Lalk

lalk@uni-greifswald.de

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University, Greifswald, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PG CK IS ML. Performed the experiments: CK PG. Analyzed the data: PG CK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IS ML. Wrote the paper: PG CK IS ML.