About the Authors

Ricardo S. Almeida

Affiliations Department of Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knoell Institute, Jena, Germany, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

Sascha Brunke

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knoell Institute, Jena, Germany

Antje Albrecht

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knoell Institute, Jena, Germany

Sascha Thewes

Affiliation Department of Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacy, Institute for Biology – Microbiology, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Michael Laue

Affiliation Centre for Biological Safety 4 (ZBS4), Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

John E. Edwards Jr

Affiliations David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

Scott G. Filler

Affiliations David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

Bernhard Hube

bernhard.hube@hki-jena.de

Affiliations Department of Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knoell Institute, Jena, Germany, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RSA SB AA ST JEEJ SGF BH. Performed the experiments: RSA ML. Analyzed the data: RSA BH. Wrote the paper: RSA SGF BH.