About the Authors

Ying Zhang

ying.zhang@nottingham.ac.uk (YZ); nigel.minton@nottingham.ac.uk (NPM)

Affiliation Clostridia Research Group, BBSRC/EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre (SBRC), School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Alexander Grosse-Honebrink

Affiliation Clostridia Research Group, BBSRC/EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre (SBRC), School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Nigel P. Minton

ying.zhang@nottingham.ac.uk (YZ); nigel.minton@nottingham.ac.uk (NPM)

Affiliation Clostridia Research Group, BBSRC/EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre (SBRC), School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: The University of Nottingham has filed two patents (WO2013/144653 and WO2013/144647) on which Ying Zhang and Nigel Minton are coinventors which describes the use of the developed transposon system. Any net revenue after covering patent costs is shared equitably between the University and the inventors. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NPM YZ. Performed the experiments: YZ AGH. Analyzed the data: NPM YZ AGH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NPM YZ AGH. Wrote the paper: NPM YZ.