About the Authors

Ingrid B. Müller

Contributed equally to this work with: Ingrid B. Müller, Fang Wu

ibmueller@bni-hamburg.de

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Fang Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ingrid B. Müller, Fang Wu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Bärbel Bergmann

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Julia Knöckel

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Rolf D. Walter

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Heinz Gehring

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Carsten Wrenger

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IBM FW RDW HG CW. Performed the experiments: IBM FW BB JK CW. Analyzed the data: IBM FW BB JK RDW HG CW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IBM FW RDW HG CW. Wrote the paper: IBM FW RDW HG CW.