About the Authors

Björn De Samber

Bjorn.DeSamber@UGent.be

Affiliation Department of Analytical Chemistry, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Maria J. Niemiec

Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology / MIMS, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Microbial Immunology Research Group, Hans Knöll Institute / Leibniz-Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany

Brecht Laforce

Affiliation Department of Analytical Chemistry, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Jan Garrevoet

Affiliation DESY, Hamburg, Germany

Eva Vergucht

Affiliation Department of Analytical Chemistry, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Riet De Rycke

Affiliations Inflammation Research Centre, VIB and Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB and Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Peter Cloetens

Affiliation European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France

Constantin F. Urban

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology / MIMS, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Laszlo Vincze

Affiliation Department of Analytical Chemistry, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CFU BDS RDR MJN LV. Data curation: BDS. Formal analysis: BDS JG BL EV. Funding acquisition: BDS MJN CFU LV. Investigation: BDS MJN JG EV. Methodology: CFU BDS MJN RDR. Project administration: BDS CFU LV. Resources: PC RDR BDS MJN LV CFU. Software: BDS JG BL EV. Supervision: BDS. Visualization: BDS. Writing – original draft: BDS. Writing – review & editing: BDS MJN RDR CFU LV.