About the Authors

Sebastian Blättner

Affiliation Biocenter, Chair of Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Sudip Das

Affiliation Biocenter, Chair of Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Kerstin Paprotka

Affiliation Biocenter, Chair of Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Ursula Eilers

Affiliation Core Unit Functional Genomics, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Markus Krischke

Affiliation Biocenter, Chair of Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Dorothee Kretschmer

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Interfaculty Institute for Microbiology and Infection Medicine Tübingen (IMIT), University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Christian W. Remmele

Affiliation Biocenter, Chair of Bioinformatics, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Marcus Dittrich

Affiliations Biocenter, Chair of Bioinformatics, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Institute of Human Genetics, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Tobias Müller

Affiliation Biocenter, Chair of Bioinformatics, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Christina Schuelein-Voelk

Affiliation Core Unit Functional Genomics, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Tobias Hertlein

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Martin J. Mueller

Affiliation Biocenter, Chair of Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Bruno Huettel

Affiliation Max Planck Genome Centre, Cologne, Germany

Richard Reinhardt

Affiliation Max Planck Genome Centre, Cologne, Germany

Knut Ohlsen

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Thomas Rudel

Affiliation Biocenter, Chair of Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Martin J. Fraunholz

martin.fraunholz@uni-wuerzburg.de

Affiliation Biocenter, Chair of Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB SD DK KO TR MJF. Performed the experiments: SB SD KP TH DK MK BH. Analyzed the data: SB SD CSV UE MK MJM RR CWR TM MD MJF. Wrote the paper: SB SD TH MK MJF.