About the Authors

Sandra Bruns

Contributed equally to this work with: Sandra Bruns, Olaf Kniemeyer, Mike Hasenberg

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Applied Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans-Knoell-Institute (HKI), Jena, Germany, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

Olaf Kniemeyer

Contributed equally to this work with: Sandra Bruns, Olaf Kniemeyer, Mike Hasenberg

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Applied Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans-Knoell-Institute (HKI), Jena, Germany, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

Mike Hasenberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Sandra Bruns, Olaf Kniemeyer, Mike Hasenberg

Affiliation Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Institute for Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Magdeburg, Germany

Vishukumar Aimanianda

Affiliation Unite des Aspergillus, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Sandor Nietzsche

Affiliation Electron Microscopic Centre, Clinics of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

Andreas Thywißen

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Applied Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans-Knoell-Institute (HKI), Jena, Germany, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

Andreas Jeron

Affiliation Helmholtz-Institute for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany

Jean-Paul Latgé

Affiliation Unite des Aspergillus, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Axel A. Brakhage

Axel.Brakhage@hki-jena.de (AAB); matthias.gunzer@med.ovgu.de (MG)

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Applied Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans-Knoell-Institute (HKI), Jena, Germany, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

Matthias Gunzer

Axel.Brakhage@hki-jena.de (AAB); matthias.gunzer@med.ovgu.de (MG)

Affiliation Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Institute for Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Magdeburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OK AAB MG. Performed the experiments: SB OK MH VA SN AT. Analyzed the data: SB OK MH JPL AAB MG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJ JPL. Wrote the paper: OK AAB MG.