About the Authors

Maria De Angelis

These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Soil, Plant and Food Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

Francesca Bottacini

These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Bruno Fosso

Affiliation Department of Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biopharmaceutical, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

Philip Kelleher

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Maria Calasso

Affiliation Department of Soil, Plant and Food Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

Raffaella Di Cagno

Affiliation Department of Soil, Plant and Food Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

Marco Ventura

Affiliation Laboratory of Probiogenomics, Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Ernesto Picardi

Affiliations Department of Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biopharmaceutical, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy, Institute of Biomembranes and Bioenergetics (IBBE), CNR, Bari, Italy, National Institute of Biostructures and Biosystems (INBB), Rome, Italy

Douwe van Sinderen

d.vansinderen@ucc.ie (DVS); marco.gobbetti@uniba.it (MG)

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Marco Gobbetti

d.vansinderen@ucc.ie (DVS); marco.gobbetti@uniba.it (MG)

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Soil, Plant and Food Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DVS MG MDA FB. Performed the experiments: FB MDA BF PK MC. Analyzed the data: FB MDA RDC EP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MG DVS. Wrote the paper: MDA FB DVS. Revised the manuscript: DVS MG MV.