About the Authors

Stephanie Schelder

Affiliation Institut für Bio-und Geowissenschaften, IBG-1: Biotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany

Daniela Zaade

Current address: Center for Cardiovascular Research (CCR)/Institute of Pharmacology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Affiliation Institut für Bio-und Geowissenschaften, IBG-1: Biotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany

Boris Litsanov

Affiliation Institut für Bio-und Geowissenschaften, IBG-1: Biotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany

Michael Bott

Affiliation Institut für Bio-und Geowissenschaften, IBG-1: Biotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany

Melanie Brocker

m.brocker@fz-juelich.de

Affiliation Institut für Bio-und Geowissenschaften, IBG-1: Biotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany

Competing Interests

All authors are affiliated to the “Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH”. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all PloS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS M. Bott M. Brocker. Performed the experiments: DZ BL SS. Analyzed the data: SS M. Brocker. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: M. Bott. Wrote the paper: SS M. Brocker.