About the Authors

Tsuyoshi Miki

mikit@pharm.kitasato-u.ac.jp

Current address: Department of Microbiology, School of Pharmacy, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan

Affiliation The Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Wolf-Dietrich Hardt

Affiliation The Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TM WDH. Performed the experiments: TM. Analyzed the data: TM WDH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WDH. Wrote the paper: TM WDH.