About the Authors

Jan Korte

Contributed equally to this work with: Jan Korte, Marina Alber

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

Marina Alber

Contributed equally to this work with: Jan Korte, Marina Alber

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

Carolina M. Trujillo

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Karl Syson

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

Hendrik Koliwer-Brandl

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

René Deenen

Affiliation Biological and Medical Research Center (BMFZ), Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Karl Köhrer

Affiliation Biological and Medical Research Center (BMFZ), Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Michael A. DeJesus

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

Travis Hartman

Current address: Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

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

William R. Jacobs Jr.

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

Stephen Bornemann

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

Thomas R. Ioerger

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

Sabine Ehrt

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Rainer Kalscheuer

rainer.kalscheuer@uni-duesseldorf.de

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RK. Formal analysis: MAD TRI RD KK. Investigation: JK MA CMT KS HKB MAD RD. Methodology: RK WRJ TH TRI. Resources: TH WRJ. Software: MAD TRI. Supervision: RK KK TRI SB WRJ SE. Validation: JK MA CMT KS RD. Writing – original draft: RK. Writing – review & editing: HKB KK TRI SB WRJ SE.