About the Authors

Debjani Saha

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - South Campus, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Karlsruhe, Germany

Ramona Fetzner

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - South Campus, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Karlsruhe, Germany

Britta Burkhardt

Affiliation Department of Food Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - South Campus, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Karlsruhe, Germany

Joachim Podlech

Affiliation Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - South Campus, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Karlsruhe, Germany

Manfred Metzler

Affiliation Department of Food Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - South Campus, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Karlsruhe, Germany

Ha Dang

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Christopher Lawrence

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Reinhard Fischer

reinhard.fischer@bio.uka.de

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - South Campus, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Karlsruhe, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: R. Fischer. Performed the experiments: DS R. Fetzner. Analyzed the data: R. Fischer JP MM CL HD BB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: R. Fischer BB. Wrote the paper: R. Fischer DS BB.