About the Authors

Patrick Seitz

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Hassan Pezeshgi Modarres

Affiliations Laboratory for Biomolecular Modeling, Institute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Lausanne, Switzerland

Sandrine Borgeaud

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Roman D. Bulushev

Affiliation Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology, Institute of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Lorenz J. Steinbock

Affiliation Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology, Institute of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Aleksandra Radenovic

Affiliation Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology, Institute of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Matteo Dal Peraro

Affiliations Laboratory for Biomolecular Modeling, Institute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Lausanne, Switzerland

Melanie Blokesch

melanie.blokesch@epfl.ch

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PS HPM RDB LJS AR MDP MB. Performed the experiments: PS HPM SB RDB LJS MDP MB. Analyzed the data: PS HPM RDB LJS AR MDP MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PS HPM SB RDB LJS AR MDP MB. Wrote the paper: MB. Conceived the project: PS MB. Performed the cellular biology-based experiments: PS MB. Designed and constructed the bacterial strains and plasmids: PS SB MB. Performed biochemical experiments/protein purification: SB MB. Performed the biomolecular modeling experiments: HPM MDP. Performed the atomic force microscopy experiments: RDB LJS AR. Contributed to the text: PS HPM RDB LJS AR MDP.