About the Authors

Carolyn A. Zeiner

Current Address: Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Samuel O. Purvine

Affiliation Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Erika M. Zink

Affiliation Biological Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Ljiljana Paša-Tolić

Affiliation Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Dominique L. Chaput

Affiliation Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America

Sajeet Haridas

Affiliation U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Si Wu

Current Address: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Affiliation Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Kurt LaButti

Affiliation U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Igor V. Grigoriev

Affiliation U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Bernard Henrissat

Affiliations Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, UMR7257, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Aix-Marseille Université, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France, Department of Biological Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia

Cara M. Santelli

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Colleen M. Hansel

chansel@whoi.edu

Affiliation Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CAZ LP-T SW CMS CMH. Performed the experiments: CAZ SOP EMZ DLC SH KL IVG CMS. Analyzed the data: CAZ SOP SH KL IVG BH CMS CMH. Wrote the paper: CAZ SOP EMZ LP-T DLC SH SW IVG CMS CMH.