About the Authors

Allison McCormick

Affiliation Max-von-Pettenkofer-Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Ilse D. Jacobsen

Affiliation Department for Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany

Marzena Broniszewska

Affiliation Max-von-Pettenkofer-Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Julia Beck

Affiliation Max-von-Pettenkofer-Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Jürgen Heesemann

Affiliations Max-von-Pettenkofer-Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, Center of Integrated Protein Science (Munich) at the Faculty of Medicine of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Frank Ebel

ebel@mvp.uni-meunchen.de

Affiliation Max-von-Pettenkofer-Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FE AM. Performed the experiments: AM IDJ MB JB. Analyzed the data: FE AM JH. Wrote the paper: FE AM.