About the Authors

Sylvia Simon

Affiliations Max von Pettenkofer Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Ursula Schell

Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Natalie Heuer

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry I, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Dominik Hager

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Michael F. Albers

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Umeå Center for Microbial Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Jan Matthias

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry I, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Felix Fahrnbauer

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Dirk Trauner

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Ludwig Eichinger

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry I, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Christian Hedberg

Affiliations Department of Chemistry and Umeå Center for Microbial Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Department of Chemical Biology, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany

Hubert Hilbi

hilbi@imm.uzh.ch

Affiliations Max von Pettenkofer Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS DT LE CH HH. Performed the experiments: SS US NH DH MFA JM FF. Analyzed the data: SS US NH DH MFA JM FF DT LE CH HH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DH MFA DT CH. Wrote the paper: SS DH LE CH HH.