About the Authors

Teresia Hallström

Contributed equally to this work with: Teresia Hallström, Birendra Singh

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institute, Jena, Germany

Birendra Singh

Contributed equally to this work with: Teresia Hallström, Birendra Singh

Affiliation Clinical Microbiology, Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Peter Kraiczy

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Sven Hammerschmidt

Affiliation Department Genetics of Microorganisms, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Christine Skerka

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institute, Jena, Germany

Peter F. Zipfel

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Infection Biology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institute, Jena, Germany, Faculty of Biology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

Kristian Riesbeck

kristian.riesbeck@med.lu.se

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Clinical Microbiology, Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TH BS PFZ KR. Performed the experiments: TH BS. Analyzed the data: TH BS CS PFZ KR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PK SH. Wrote the paper: TH BS PK SH CS PFZ KR.