About the Authors

Lukas Aeberhard

Contributed equally to this work with: Lukas Aeberhard, Sebastian Banhart

Affiliation Junior Research Group `Sexually Transmitted Bacterial Pathogens´, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Sebastian Banhart

Contributed equally to this work with: Lukas Aeberhard, Sebastian Banhart

Affiliation Junior Research Group `Sexually Transmitted Bacterial Pathogens´, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Martina Fischer

Affiliation Junior Research Group `Bioinformatics´, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Nico Jehmlich

Affiliation Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University, Greifswald, Germany

Laura Rose

Affiliation Junior Research Group `Sexually Transmitted Bacterial Pathogens´, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Sophia Koch

Affiliation Junior Research Group `Sexually Transmitted Bacterial Pathogens´, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Michael Laue

Affiliation Advanced Light and Electron Microscopy (ZBS 4), Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Bernhard Y. Renard

Affiliation Junior Research Group `Bioinformatics´, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Frank Schmidt

Affiliations Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University, Greifswald, Germany, ZIK-FunGene Junior Research Group `Applied Proteomics´, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University, Greifswald, Germany

Dagmar Heuer

heuerd@rki.de

Affiliation Junior Research Group `Sexually Transmitted Bacterial Pathogens´, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DH LA SB. Performed the experiments: LA SB SK LR. Analyzed the data: LA SB DH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SK. Wrote the paper: DH LA SB. Performed LC-MS/MS analysis: NJ FS LA. Performed the statistical analysis of the proteomic data: MF BYR. Performed the EM studies: ML.