About the Authors

Frank Sainsbury

frank.sainsbury.1@ulaval.ca

Current address: Département de Phytologie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom

Markus Sack

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Biotechnology, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH), Aachen, Germany

Johannes Stadlmann

Affiliation Department for Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Heribert Quendler

Current address: Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Affiliation Institute of Applied Microbiology, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Rainer Fischer

Affiliations Institute for Molecular Biotechnology, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH), Aachen, Germany, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology, Aachen, Germany

George P. Lomonossoff

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FS MS RF GL. Performed the experiments: FS MS JS HQ. Analyzed the data: FS MS JS HQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RF GL. Wrote the paper: FS MS GL.