About the Authors

Arnaud Taton

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Ewa Lis

Current address: Genomatica, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Dawn M. Adin

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Guogang Dong

Current address: Joule Unlimited Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Scott Cookson

Current address: West Wireless Health Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Steve A. Kay

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Susan S. Golden

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

James W. Golden

jwgolden@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

This work was funded by the company Biolight Harvesting, Inc. Three authors are now employed by commercial companies: EL at Life Technologies; GD at Joule Unlimited Technologies, Inc.; and SC at West Wireless Health Institute. Life Technologies has expressed interest in product development related to the strain BL0902 but they did not fund any of this work. These affiliations do not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AT EL DMA GD SC SAK SSG JWG. Performed the experiments: AT EL DMA GD SC. Analyzed the data: AT EL DMA GD SC SAK SSG JWG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AT EL DMA GD SC. Wrote the paper: AT EL DMA GD SC SSG JWG.