About the Authors

Luisa F. Jiménez-Soto

Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer-Institute for Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany

Stefan Kutter

Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer-Institute for Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany

Xaver Sewald

Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer-Institute for Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany

Claudia Ertl

Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer-Institute for Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany

Evelyn Weiss

Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer-Institute for Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany

Ulrike Kapp

Affiliation Macromolecular Crystallography Group, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France

Manfred Rohde

Affiliation Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Braunschweig, Germany

Torsten Pirch

Affiliation Munich Center of integrated Protein Science, CiPSM, at the Department of Biology, Microbiology, of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany

Kirsten Jung

Affiliation Munich Center of integrated Protein Science, CiPSM, at the Department of Biology, Microbiology, of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany

S. Francesco Retta

Affiliation Molecular Biotechnology Centre, Department of Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, Torino, Italy

Laurent Terradot

Affiliation Macromolecular Crystallography Group, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France

Wolfgang Fischer

Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer-Institute for Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany

Rainer Haas

haas@mvp.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer-Institute for Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LFJS XS WF RH. Performed the experiments: LFJS SK XS CE EW MR RH. Analyzed the data: LFJS SK XS TP KJ RH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UK SFR LT RH. Wrote the paper: LFJS WF RH.