About the Authors

Anatoly S. Glukhov

Affiliation Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia

Antonina I. Krutilina

Affiliation Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia

Michael G. Shlyapnikov

Affiliation Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia

Konstantin Severinov

Affiliations Institutes of Molecular Genetics and Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Waksman Institute, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Daria Lavysh

Affiliation Institutes of Molecular Genetics and Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Vladimir V. Kochetkov

Affiliation Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia

John W. McGrath

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Colin de Leeuwe

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Olga V. Shaburova

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Laboratory for Genetics of Bacteriophages, I.I. Mechnikov Research Institute for Vaccines and Sera, RAMS, Moscow, Russia

Victor N. Krylov

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Laboratory for Genetics of Bacteriophages, I.I. Mechnikov Research Institute for Vaccines and Sera, RAMS, Moscow, Russia

Natalia V. Akulenko

Affiliations Institutes of Molecular Genetics and Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Waksman Institute, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America, School of Biological Sciences, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Leonid A. Kulakov

l.kulakov@qub.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ASG NVA LAK. Performed the experiments: ASG NVA DL VVK AIK MGS CL OVS LAK. Analyzed the data: ASG NVA DL LAK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VNK DL JWM OVS MGS. Wrote the paper: ASG KS LAK.