About the Authors

Ursula Neu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ursula Neu, Zaigham Mahmood Khan, Benjamin Schuch

Current address: MRC National Institute of Medical Research, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London, United Kingdom.

Affiliation Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Zaigham Mahmood Khan

Contributed equally to this work with: Ursula Neu, Zaigham Mahmood Khan, Benjamin Schuch

Affiliation Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Benjamin Schuch

Contributed equally to this work with: Ursula Neu, Zaigham Mahmood Khan, Benjamin Schuch

Current address: Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, Department of Structural Cell Biology, Martinsried, Germany.

Affiliation Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Angelina S. Palma

Current address: REQUIMTE, CQFB, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology/New University of Lisbon, Caparica, Portugal.

Affiliation Glycosciences Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Yan Liu

Affiliation Glycosciences Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Michael Pawlita

Affiliation Department of Genome Modificati and Carcinogenesis (F020), German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Ten Feizi

Affiliation Glycosciences Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Thilo Stehle

thilo.stehle@uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliations Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UN MP TF TS. Performed the experiments: UN ZMK BS ASP YL. Analyzed the data: UN ZMK BS ASP YL TF TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MP. Wrote the paper: UN ZMK BS ASP YL TF TS.