About the Authors

Jessica A. Pfeilsticker

Contributed equally to this work with: Jessica A. Pfeilsticker, Aiko Umeda

Affiliation Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Aiko Umeda

Contributed equally to this work with: Jessica A. Pfeilsticker, Aiko Umeda

Affiliation Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Blake Farrow

Affiliation Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Connie L. Hsueh

Affiliation Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Kaycie M. Deyle

Affiliation Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Jocelyn T. Kim

Affiliation Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Bert T. Lai

Affiliation Indi Molecular, Culver City, California, United States of America

James R. Heath

heath@caltech.edu

Affiliation Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

James R Heath is a founder and board member of Indi Molecular - InDi molecular was spun out of Integrated diagnostics recently, so a declaration of a competing interest with Indi Molecular is now more appropriate. Indi MOlecular is seeking to commercialize the PCC Agent technology. Bert T.Lai is an employee of Indi Molecular. Associated patents are pending. A patent has been filed (not issued) that is related to the capture agent development approach utilized in this paper (PCT/US09/47799/W02009155420). This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in our guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JAP AU BF JRH. Performed the experiments: JAP AU CLH KMD BF BTL. Analyzed the data: JAP AU BF CLH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JAP AU CH JTK BF BL. Wrote the paper: JAP AU JRH.