About the Authors

Paulina Bartasun

Contributed equally to this work with: Paulina Bartasun, Hubert Cieśliński

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Chemistry, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland

Hubert Cieśliński

Contributed equally to this work with: Paulina Bartasun, Hubert Cieśliński

hcieslin@pg.gda.pl

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Chemistry, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland

Anna Bujacz

Affiliation Institute of Technical Biochemistry, Lódź University of Technology, Lódź, Poland

Anna Wierzbicka-Woś

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

Józef Kur

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Chemistry, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HC AB PB JK. Performed the experiments: AB PB AWW HC. Analyzed the data: AB HC PB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB PB AWW. Wrote the paper: AB HC PB JK.