About the Authors

Dörte Becher

Affiliation Institute for Microbiology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Kristina Hempel

Affiliation Institute for Microbiology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Susanne Sievers

Affiliation Institute for Microbiology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Daniela Zühlke

Affiliation Institute for Microbiology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Jan Pané-Farré

Affiliation Institute for Microbiology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Andreas Otto

Affiliation Institute for Microbiology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Stephan Fuchs

Affiliation Institute for Microbiology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Dirk Albrecht

Affiliation Institute for Microbiology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Jörg Bernhardt

Affiliation Institute for Microbiology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Susanne Engelmann

Affiliation Institute for Microbiology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Uwe Völker

Affiliation Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Jan Maarten van Dijl

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Groningen and University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Michael Hecker

hecker@uni-greifswald.de

Affiliation Institute for Microbiology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DB MH. Performed the experiments: KH SS DZ JPF. Analyzed the data: DB KH SS DZ JPF AO SF DA JB SE UV JMvD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AO. Wrote the paper: DB UV MH.