About the Authors

Sebastian Bubendorfer

Contributed equally to this work with: Sebastian Bubendorfer, Mayumi Ishihara

Affiliation Department of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Mayumi Ishihara

Contributed equally to this work with: Sebastian Bubendorfer, Mayumi Ishihara

Affiliation Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Kim Dohlich

Affiliation Department of Cellular Microbiology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Christian Heiss

Affiliation Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Jan Vogel

Affiliation Department of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Federico Sastre

Affiliations Division of Molecular Biosciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Bioprocesos, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Maria Panico

Affiliation Division of Molecular Biosciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Paul Hitchen

Affiliation Division of Molecular Biosciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Anne Dell

Affiliation Division of Molecular Biosciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Parastoo Azadi

azadi@ccrc.uga.edu (PA); thormann@mpi-marburg.mpg.de (KMT)

Affiliation Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Kai M. Thormann

azadi@ccrc.uga.edu (PA); thormann@mpi-marburg.mpg.de (KMT)

Affiliation Department of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB MI AD PA KMT. Performed the experiments: SB MI KD CH JV FS MP PH. Analyzed the data: SB MI KD CH FS AD AD KMT. Wrote the paper: SB MI AD PA KMT.