About the Authors

Alicja K. Warda

Affiliations TI Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Laboratory of Food Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Roland J. Siezen

Affiliations TI Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, RadboudUMC, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Microbial Bioinformatics, Ede, The Netherlands

Jos Boekhorst

Affiliations TI Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, RadboudUMC, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, NIZO Food Research B.V., Ede, The Netherlands

Marjon H. J. Wells-Bennik

Affiliations TI Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands, NIZO Food Research B.V., Ede, The Netherlands

Anne de Jong

Affiliations TI Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Oscar P. Kuipers

Affiliations TI Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Masja N. Nierop Groot

Affiliations TI Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Tjakko Abee

tjakko.abee@wur.nl

Affiliations TI Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Laboratory of Food Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The affiliation to NIZO Food Research B.V., Microbial Bioinformatics and TI Food and Nutrition of co-authors does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKW MNNG TA. Performed the experiments: AKW. Analyzed the data: AKW RJS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RJS JB MHJWB AdJ OPK. Wrote the paper: AKW RJS JB AdJ MHJWB OPK MNNG TA.