About the Authors

Alison R. Erickson

Contributed equally to this work with: Alison R. Erickson, Brandi L. Cantarel, Regina Lamendella, Claire M. Fraser, Robert L. Hettich

Affiliations Chemical Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America, Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Brandi L. Cantarel

Contributed equally to this work with: Alison R. Erickson, Brandi L. Cantarel, Regina Lamendella, Claire M. Fraser, Robert L. Hettich

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Regina Lamendella

Contributed equally to this work with: Alison R. Erickson, Brandi L. Cantarel, Regina Lamendella, Claire M. Fraser, Robert L. Hettich

Current address: Juniata College, Biology Department, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Youssef Darzi

Affiliations Bioinformatics and Eco-Systems Biology lab, Department of Structural Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Research Group of Microbiology (MICR), Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Emmanuel F. Mongodin

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Chongle Pan

Affiliation Chemical Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Manesh Shah

Affiliation Chemical Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Jonas Halfvarson

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Örebro University Hospital and School of Health and Medical Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

Curt Tysk

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Örebro University Hospital and School of Health and Medical Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

Bernard Henrissat

Affiliation Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, UMR6098, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Universités Aix-Marseille I & II, Marseille, France

Jeroen Raes

Affiliations Bioinformatics and Eco-Systems Biology lab, Department of Structural Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Research Group of Microbiology (MICR), Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Nathan C. Verberkmoes

Affiliation Chemical Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Claire M. Fraser

Contributed equally to this work with: Alison R. Erickson, Brandi L. Cantarel, Regina Lamendella, Claire M. Fraser, Robert L. Hettich

These authors are joint Senior Authors.

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Robert L. Hettich

Contributed equally to this work with: Alison R. Erickson, Brandi L. Cantarel, Regina Lamendella, Claire M. Fraser, Robert L. Hettich

These authors are joint Senior Authors.

Affiliation Chemical Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Janet K. Jansson

jrjansson@lbl.gov

These authors are joint Senior Authors.

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JKJ CMF RLH. Performed the experiments: JH CT RL BLC EFM ARE NCV. Analyzed the data: ARE BLC CP NCV RLH MS CP YD JR BH BLC. Wrote the paper: ARE BLC RL JKJ CMF RLH.