About the Authors

Melanie Zaparty

Contributed equally to this work with: Melanie Zaparty, Anna Hagemann

Affiliation Institute for Molecular and Cellular Anatomy, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Anna Hagemann

Contributed equally to this work with: Melanie Zaparty, Anna Hagemann

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Biofilm Centre, Molecular Enzyme Technology and Biochemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Christopher Bräsen

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Biofilm Centre, Molecular Enzyme Technology and Biochemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Reinhard Hensel

Affiliation Department of Biology, Microbiology I, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Andrei N. Lupas

Affiliation Department of Protein Evolution, Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Henner Brinkmann

Affiliation Département de Biochimie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

Bettina Siebers

Bettina.siebers@uni-due.de

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Biofilm Centre, Molecular Enzyme Technology and Biochemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BS RH MZ CB. Performed the experiments: MZ AH. Analyzed the data: ANL HB BS RH MZ AH CB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ANL HB. Wrote the paper: MZ BS CB.