About the Authors

Wenqi Yu

Affiliation Microbial Genetics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Friedrich Götz

friedrich.goetz@uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliation Microbial Genetics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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