About the Authors

Ewelina Michta

Affiliation Department of Microbiology/Biotechnology, Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Wei Ding

Affiliation Shanghai Applied Protein Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China

Shaochun Zhu

Affiliation Shanghai Applied Protein Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China

Kai Blin

Affiliation Department of Microbiology/Biotechnology, Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Hongqiang Ruan

Affiliation Shanghai Applied Protein Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China

Rui Wang

Affiliations Shanghai Applied Protein Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China, Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Wolfgang Wohlleben

Affiliation Department of Microbiology/Biotechnology, Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Yvonne Mast

yvonne.mast@biotech.uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliation Department of Microbiology/Biotechnology, Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors declare that Shanghai Applied Protein Technology Co., Ltd does not have any competing interests in terms of employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products. The authors have the following interests: Authors WD, SZ, HR, RW are employed by commercial company Shanghai Applied Protein Technology Co., Ltd. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YM EM WW. Performed the experiments: EM. Analyzed the data: EM YM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WD SZ KB HR RW. Wrote the paper: YM EM.