About the Authors

Corinna Siegel

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Teresia Hallström

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Leibniz-Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany

Christine Skerka

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Leibniz-Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany

Hannes Eberhardt

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Leibniz-Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany

Barbara Uzonyi

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Leibniz-Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany

Tobias Beckhaus

Affiliation Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Michael Karas

Affiliation Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Reinhard Wallich

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Brian Stevenson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Peter F. Zipfel

Affiliations Department of Infection Biology, Leibniz-Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

Peter Kraiczy

Kraiczy@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS TH PK. Performed the experiments: CS TH TB. Analyzed the data: CS TH CS TB PFZ PK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CS HE BU TB MK RW BS PFZ. Wrote the paper: CS BS PFZ PK.