About the Authors

Jothini Odman-Naresh

Affiliation Department of Biology, Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Margret Duevel

Affiliation Department of Biology, Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Hans Merzendorfer

merzendorfer@biologie.uni-osnabrueck.de

Affiliation Department of Biology, Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JO HM. Performed the experiments: JO MD. Analyzed the data: JO SM HM. Wrote the manuscript: JO SM HM.