About the Authors

Sabrina Wemhoff

Contributed equally to this work with: Sabrina Wemhoff, Roland Klassen

Affiliation Institut für Molekulare Mikrobiologie und Biotechnologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

Roland Klassen

Contributed equally to this work with: Sabrina Wemhoff, Roland Klassen

Affiliation Institut für Biologie, Fachgebiet Mikrobiologie, Universität Kassel, Kassel, Germany

Anja Beetz

Affiliation Institut für Molekulare Mikrobiologie und Biotechnologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

Friedhelm Meinhardt

meinhar@uni-muenster.de

Affiliation Institut für Molekulare Mikrobiologie und Biotechnologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SW RK. Performed the experiments: SW RK AB. Analyzed the data: SW RK FM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FM. Wrote the paper: SW RK FM. Contributed to connectional work: FM.