About the Authors

Robert Altwasser

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert Altwasser, Vito Valiante

Affiliation Department of Systems Biology/Bioinformatics, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology—Hans Knöll Institute, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 23, 07745, Jena, Germany

Clara Baldin

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Applied Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology—Hans Knöll Institute, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 23, 07745, Jena, Germany, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 23, 07745, Jena, Germany

Jakob Weber

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Applied Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology—Hans Knöll Institute, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 23, 07745, Jena, Germany, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 23, 07745, Jena, Germany

Reinhard Guthke

Affiliation Department of Systems Biology/Bioinformatics, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology—Hans Knöll Institute, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 23, 07745, Jena, Germany

Olaf Kniemeyer

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Applied Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology—Hans Knöll Institute, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 23, 07745, Jena, Germany, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 23, 07745, Jena, Germany, Integrated Research and Treatment Center, Center for Sepsis Control and Care (CSCC), Jena University Hospital, 07747, Jena, Germany

Axel A. Brakhage

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Applied Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology—Hans Knöll Institute, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 23, 07745, Jena, Germany, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 23, 07745, Jena, Germany

Jörg Linde

joerg.linde@leibniz-hki.de (JL); vito.valiante@leibniz-hki.de (VV)

Affiliation Department of Systems Biology/Bioinformatics, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology—Hans Knöll Institute, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 23, 07745, Jena, Germany

Vito Valiante

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert Altwasser, Vito Valiante

joerg.linde@leibniz-hki.de (JL); vito.valiante@leibniz-hki.de (VV)

Affiliation Leibniz Junior Research Group—Biobricks of Microbial Natural Product Syntheses, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology—Hans Knöll Institute, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 23, 07745, Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RA RG OK AAB JL VV. Performed the experiments: RA CB JW JL VV. Analyzed the data: RA RG OK AAB JL VV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RA CB JW JL VV. Wrote the paper: RA AAB JL VV.