About the Authors

Annika Osswald

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Ulm, 89068, Ulm, Germany

Christina Westermann

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Ulm, 89068, Ulm, Germany

Zhongke Sun

christian.riedel@uni-ulm.de (CUR); sunzh@daad-alumni.de (ZS)

Affiliations Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Ulm, 89068, Ulm, Germany, College of Life Sciences and Agriculture, Zhoukou Normal University, Chuanhui District, 466001, Zhoukou City, P.R. China

Christian U. Riedel

christian.riedel@uni-ulm.de (CUR); sunzh@daad-alumni.de (ZS)

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Ulm, 89068, Ulm, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZS CUR. Performed the experiments: AO CW ZS. Analyzed the data: AO CW ZS CUR. Wrote the paper: AO ZS CUR.