About the Authors

Hendrik Koliwer-Brandl

Contributed equally to this work with: Hendrik Koliwer-Brandl, Karl Syson

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Karl Syson

Contributed equally to this work with: Hendrik Koliwer-Brandl, Karl Syson

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom

Robert van de Weerd

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Govind Chandra

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom

Ben Appelmelk

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Marina Alber

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Thomas R. Ioerger

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

William R. Jacobs Jr.

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Jeroen Geurtsen

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Stephen Bornemann

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom

Rainer Kalscheuer

rainer.kalscheuer@uni-duesseldorf.de

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RK SB. Performed the experiments: HKB KS RvdW GC TRI MA JG RK. Analyzed the data: RK SB JG BA TRI WRJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BA JG. Wrote the paper: RK SB.