About the Authors

Constantin N. Takacs

Current address: Laboratories of Cellular Biophysics and of Virology and Infectious Disease, and Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Jason Hocking

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Matthew T. Cabeen

Current address: Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Nhat Khai Bui

Current address: Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Department of Microbial Natural Products (MINS), Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

Affiliation Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Sebastian Poggio

Current address: Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Waldemar Vollmer

Affiliation Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Christine Jacobs-Wagner

christine.jacobs-wagner@yale.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CNT MTC SP WV CJW. Performed the experiments: CNT JH MTC NKB SP. Analyzed the data: CNT JH SP WV CJW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WV. Wrote the paper: CNT CJW.