About the Authors

Yulia M. Serkebaeva

Contributed equally to this work with: Yulia M. Serkebaeva, Yongkyu Kim

Affiliations Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Yongkyu Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Yulia M. Serkebaeva, Yongkyu Kim

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Werner Liesack

liesack@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Svetlana N. Dedysh

Affiliation Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YMS SND WL. Performed the experiments: YMS. Analyzed the data: YMS YK SND. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WL YK YMS. Wrote the paper: SND WL.