About the Authors

Michalis Aivaliotis

Contributed equally to this work with: Michalis Aivaliotis, Boris Macek

michalis@biochem.mpg.de

Current address: Center of Basic Research II, Biomedical Research Centre of Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece

Affiliation Department of Membrane Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Boris Macek

Contributed equally to this work with: Michalis Aivaliotis, Boris Macek

Current address: Proteome Center, Interfaculty Institute for Cell Biology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Affiliation Department of Proteomics and Signal Transduction, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Florian Gnad

Affiliation Department of Proteomics and Signal Transduction, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Peter Reichelt

Current address: Department of Structural Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Affiliation Department of Membrane Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Matthias Mann

Affiliation Department of Proteomics and Signal Transduction, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Dieter Oesterhelt

Affiliation Department of Membrane Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA DO. Performed the experiments: MA BM. Analyzed the data: MA BM FG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA BM FG PR. Wrote the paper: MA. Provided the infrastructure and the knowledge for the phosphopeptide enrichment and the mass spectrometry: MM. Provided the infrastructure and the knowledge for the phosphoproteome analysis of the halophilic archaea: DO.