About the Authors

Dalia Denapaite

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Regine Hakenbeck

hakenb@rhrk.uni-kl.de

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RH DD. Performed the experiments: DD. Analyzed the data: DD RH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RH. Wrote the paper: RH.