About the Authors

Betty Wächtler

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knoell Institute Jena (HKI), Jena, Germany

Francesco Citiulo

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knoell Institute Jena (HKI), Jena, Germany

Nadja Jablonowski

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knoell Institute Jena (HKI), Jena, Germany

Stephanie Förster

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knoell Institute Jena (HKI), Jena, Germany

Frederic Dalle

Affiliations Laboratoire Interaction Muqueuses-Agents transmissibles (EA 562), IFR Santé-STIC, Université de Bourgogne, Faculté de Médecine, Dijon, France, University Hospital, Dijon, France

Martin Schaller

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Germany

Duncan Wilson

Contributed equally to this work with: Duncan Wilson, Bernhard Hube

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knoell Institute Jena (HKI), Jena, Germany

Bernhard Hube

Contributed equally to this work with: Duncan Wilson, Bernhard Hube

bernhard.hube@hki-jena.de

Affiliations Department of Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knoell Institute Jena (HKI), Jena, Germany, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, Center of Sepsis Control and Care, Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BW DW FD BH. Performed the experiments: BW FC NJ SF MS DW. Analyzed the data: BW FC NJ DW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS BH. Wrote the paper: BW DW BH.