About the Authors
- Pawel Szczesny
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Affiliations Department of Protein Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany, Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
- Dirk Linke
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Affiliation Department of Protein Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
- Astrid Ursinus
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Affiliation Department of Protein Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
- Kerstin Bär
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Affiliation Department of Protein Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
- Heinz Schwarz
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Affiliation Department of Protein Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
- Tanja M. Riess
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Affiliation Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen, Germany
- Volkhard A. J. Kempf
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Affiliation Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen, Germany
- Andrei N. Lupas
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* E-mail: andrei.lupas@tuebingen.mpg.de
Affiliation Department of Protein Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
- Jörg Martin
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Affiliation Department of Protein Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
- Kornelius Zeth
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Affiliation Department of Protein Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DL ANL JM KZ. Performed the experiments: PS DL AU KB HS KZ. Analyzed the data: PS DL ANL JM KZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TMR VAJK. Wrote the paper: PS DL ANL KZ. Performed the electron microscopy: DL HS. Cloned the construct: TMR VAJK. Purified and characterized the protein: AU JM; crystallized the protein: KB; determined the structure: KZ. Did the bioinformatic analyses and modeling: PS ANL.