About the Authors

Anna Lohße

Affiliation Department Biologie I, Bereich Mikrobiologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, LMU Biozentrum, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany

Susanne Ullrich

Affiliation Department Biologie I, Bereich Mikrobiologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, LMU Biozentrum, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany

Emanuel Katzmann

Affiliation Department Biologie I, Bereich Mikrobiologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, LMU Biozentrum, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany

Sarah Borg

Affiliation Department Biologie I, Bereich Mikrobiologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, LMU Biozentrum, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany

Gerd Wanner

Affiliation Department Biologie I, Bereich Mikrobiologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, LMU Biozentrum, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany

Michael Richter

Affiliation Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

Birgit Voigt

Affiliation Department of Microbial Physiology, Institute of Microbiology, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany

Thomas Schweder

Affiliation Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Research Group, Institute of Pharmacy, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany

Dirk Schüler

dirk.schueler@lmu.de

Affiliation Department Biologie I, Bereich Mikrobiologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, LMU Biozentrum, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AL SU DS. Performed the experiments: AL SU EK SB GW MR BV TS. Analyzed the data: AL SU EK SB MR BV TS DS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MR GW TS DS. Wrote the paper: AL DS.