About the Authors

Anja Poehlein

Affiliation Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany

Silke Schmidt

Affiliation Molecular Microbiology and Bioenergetics, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Anne-Kristin Kaster

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Meike Goenrich

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

John Vollmers

Affiliation Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany

Andrea Thürmer

Affiliation Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany

Johannes Bertsch

Affiliation Molecular Microbiology and Bioenergetics, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Kai Schuchmann

Affiliation Molecular Microbiology and Bioenergetics, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Birgit Voigt

Affiliation Institute for Microbiology, Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Michael Hecker

Affiliation Institute for Microbiology, Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Rolf Daniel

Affiliation Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany

Rudolf K. Thauer

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Gerhard Gottschalk

Affiliation Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany

Volker Müller

vmueller@bio.uni-frankfurt.de

Affiliation Molecular Microbiology and Bioenergetics, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AP AK KS BV MH RD GG RKT VM. Performed the experiments: JV AT KS BV AP. Analyzed the data: MG JB RD RKT GG VM SS AK MH. Wrote the paper: VM GG RKT AP.