About the Authors

Sebastian Schulz

Affiliations Institute for Molecular Bacteriology, TWINCORE GmbH, Center for Clinical and Experimental Infection Research, a joint venture of the Hannover Medical School and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Hannover, Germany, Department of Molecular Bacteriology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Denitsa Eckweiler

Affiliations Institute for Molecular Bacteriology, TWINCORE GmbH, Center for Clinical and Experimental Infection Research, a joint venture of the Hannover Medical School and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Hannover, Germany, Department of Molecular Bacteriology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Agata Bielecka

Affiliations Institute for Molecular Bacteriology, TWINCORE GmbH, Center for Clinical and Experimental Infection Research, a joint venture of the Hannover Medical School and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Hannover, Germany, Department of Molecular Bacteriology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Tanja Nicolai

Affiliation Department of Molecular Bacteriology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Raimo Franke

Affiliation Department of Chemical Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Andreas Dötsch

Current address: Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Affiliations Institute for Molecular Bacteriology, TWINCORE GmbH, Center for Clinical and Experimental Infection Research, a joint venture of the Hannover Medical School and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Hannover, Germany, Department of Molecular Bacteriology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Klaus Hornischer

Affiliations Institute for Molecular Bacteriology, TWINCORE GmbH, Center for Clinical and Experimental Infection Research, a joint venture of the Hannover Medical School and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Hannover, Germany, Department of Molecular Bacteriology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Sebastian Bruchmann

Affiliations Institute for Molecular Bacteriology, TWINCORE GmbH, Center for Clinical and Experimental Infection Research, a joint venture of the Hannover Medical School and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Hannover, Germany, Department of Molecular Bacteriology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Juliane Düvel

Affiliations Institute for Molecular Bacteriology, TWINCORE GmbH, Center for Clinical and Experimental Infection Research, a joint venture of the Hannover Medical School and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Hannover, Germany, Department of Molecular Bacteriology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Susanne Häussler

Susanne.Haeussler@helmholtz-hzi.de

Affiliations Institute for Molecular Bacteriology, TWINCORE GmbH, Center for Clinical and Experimental Infection Research, a joint venture of the Hannover Medical School and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Hannover, Germany, Department of Molecular Bacteriology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS AD SB JD SH. Performed the experiments: SS AB TN SB. Analyzed the data: SS DE AD RF JD SH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KH. Wrote the paper: SS SH.