About the Authors

Alexander U. Singer

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander U. Singer, Sebastian Schulze

Affiliations Banting and Best Department for Medical Research, University of Toronto, C.H. Best Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Sebastian Schulze

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander U. Singer, Sebastian Schulze

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

Tatiana Skarina

Affiliations Banting and Best Department for Medical Research, University of Toronto, C.H. Best Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Xiaohui Xu

Affiliations Banting and Best Department for Medical Research, University of Toronto, C.H. Best Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hong Cui

Affiliations Banting and Best Department for Medical Research, University of Toronto, C.H. Best Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Lennart Eschen-Lippold

Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle, Germany

Monique Egler

Current address: Scil Proteins GmbH, Halle, Germany.

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

Tharan Srikumar

Affiliation Ontario Cancer Institute and Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, MaRS TMDT 9-805, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Brian Raught

Affiliation Ontario Cancer Institute and Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, MaRS TMDT 9-805, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Justin Lee

Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle, Germany

Dierk Scheel

Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle, Germany

Alexei Savchenko

alexei.savchenko@utoronto.ca (AS); ulla.bonas@genetik.uni-halle.de (UB)

Affiliations Banting and Best Department for Medical Research, University of Toronto, C.H. Best Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ulla Bonas

alexei.savchenko@utoronto.ca (AS); ulla.bonas@genetik.uni-halle.de (UB)

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: A.U. Singer, S. Schulze, X. Xu, T. Srikumar, B. Raught, U. Bonas, A. Savchenko, L. Eschen-Lippold, J. Lee, D. Scheel. Performed the experiments: A.U. Singer, S. Schulze. X. Xu, T. Srikumar, H. Cui, M. Egler, T. Skarina, L. Eschen-Lippold. Analyzed the data: A.U. Singer, S. Schulze, T. Skarina, T. Srikumar, M. Egler, B. Raught, U. Bonas, A. Savchenko, L. Eschen-Lippold, J. Lee, D. Scheel. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: X. Xu, H. Cui, B. Raught, J. Lee, D. Scheel. Wrote the paper: A.U. Singer, S. Schulze, U. Bonas, A. Savchenko.