About the Authors
- Esther Meersman
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Contributed equally to this work with: Esther Meersman, Jan Steensels
Affiliations Laboratory for Genetics and Genomics, Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Laboratory for Systems Biology, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB), Leuven, Belgium
- Jan Steensels
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Contributed equally to this work with: Esther Meersman, Jan Steensels
Affiliations Laboratory for Genetics and Genomics, Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Laboratory for Systems Biology, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB), Leuven, Belgium
- Melissa Mathawan
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Affiliation Barry Callebaut AG, Zurich, Switzerland
- Pieter-Jan Wittocx
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Affiliations Laboratory for Genetics and Genomics, Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Laboratory for Systems Biology, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB), Leuven, Belgium
- Veerle Saels
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Affiliations Laboratory for Genetics and Genomics, Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Laboratory for Systems Biology, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB), Leuven, Belgium
- Nore Struyf
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Affiliations Laboratory for Genetics and Genomics, Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Laboratory for Systems Biology, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB), Leuven, Belgium
- Herwig Bernaert
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Affiliation Barry Callebaut AG, Zurich, Switzerland
- Gino Vrancken
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Affiliation Barry Callebaut AG, Zurich, Switzerland
- Kevin J. Verstrepen
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* E-mail: kevin.verstrepen@biw.vib-kuleuven.be.
Affiliations Laboratory for Genetics and Genomics, Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Laboratory for Systems Biology, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB), Leuven, Belgium
Competing Interests
One or more of the authors have an affiliation to the commercial funders of this research (Barry Callebaut AG), namely Gino Vrancken, Melissa Mathawan and Herwig Bernaert. However, they had no role in data collection, data analysis and preparation of the manuscript and this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: EM JS GV KV. Performed the experiments: EM JS PW VS NS. Analyzed the data: EM JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM HB GV KV. Wrote the paper: EM JS KV.