About the Authors

Stefan S Weber

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan S Weber, Curdin Ragaz

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Curdin Ragaz

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan S Weber, Curdin Ragaz

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Katrin Reus

¤ Current address: Institute for Medical Genetics, University of Zürich, Schwerzenbach, Switzerland

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Yves Nyfeler

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Hubert Hilbi

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: hilbi@micro.biol.ethz.ch

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

A provisional US patent application has been granted to Hubert Hilbi (US60/719,934: “Bacterial phosphoinositide probes and effectors”).

Author Contributions

SSW, CR, KR, YN, and HH conceived and designed the experiments. SSW, CR, KR, and YN performed the experiments. SSW, CR, KR, YN, and HH analyzed the data. HH wrote the paper.