About the Authors

Andrea Kotz

Affiliation Max-von-Pettenkofer-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Johannes Wagener

Affiliation Max-von-Pettenkofer-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Jakob Engel

Affiliation Department of Cellular Chemistry, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Françoise H. Routier

Affiliation Department of Cellular Chemistry, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Bernd Echtenacher

Affiliation Institute for Immunology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Ilse Jacobsen

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

Jürgen Heesemann

Affiliations Max-von-Pettenkofer-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, Faculty of Medicine, Center of Integrated Protein Science Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Frank Ebel

ebel@mvp.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Max-von-Pettenkofer-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FE FHR. Performed the experiments: AK JW JE BE IJ. Analyzed the data: FE FHR JH. Wrote the paper: FE.