About the Authors

Horst Funken

Contributed equally to this work with: Horst Funken, Kai-Malte Bartels

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Enzyme Technology, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Juelich, Germany

Kai-Malte Bartels

Contributed equally to this work with: Horst Funken, Kai-Malte Bartels

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Enzyme Technology, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Juelich, Germany

Susanne Wilhelm

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Enzyme Technology, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Juelich, Germany

Melanie Brocker

Affiliation Institute of Bio- and Geoscience 1, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Juelich, Germany

Michael Bott

Affiliation Institute of Bio- and Geoscience 1, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Juelich, Germany

Manjeet Bains

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Robert E. W. Hancock

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Frank Rosenau

Affiliation Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ulm-University, Ulm, Germany

Karl-Erich Jaeger

karl-erich.jaeger@fz-juelich.de

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Enzyme Technology, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Juelich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HF KMB REWH SW FR KEJ. Performed the experiments: HF KMB M. Brocker M. Bains. Analyzed the data: HF KMB SW M. Brocker REWH FR KEJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: M. Bains REWH M. Bott. Wrote the paper: HF KMB FR KEJ.