About the Authors

Leyre Sánchez-Barrionuevo

Contributed equally to this work with: Leyre Sánchez-Barrionuevo, Alejandro González-Benjumea

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of Seville, Seville, Spain, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

Alejandro González-Benjumea

Contributed equally to this work with: Leyre Sánchez-Barrionuevo, Alejandro González-Benjumea

Affiliation Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

Almudena Escobar-Niño

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of Seville, Seville, Spain, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

María Teresa García

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

Óscar López

Affiliation Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

Inés Maya

Affiliation Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

José G. Fernández-Bolaños

Affiliation Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

David Cánovas

emellado@us.es (EM); davidc@us.es (DC)

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

Encarnación Mellado

emellado@us.es (EM); davidc@us.es (DC)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

Competing Interests

AEN, LSB, DC, EM, AGB, OL, IM and JGFB have filed a PCT patent application titled “Bacterial strains and the uses thereof in acylation and/or deacylation reactions” (PCT/ES2015/000062; WO/2015/169980) that describe parts of the research in this manuscript. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all of the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials presented in this manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MTG OL IM JGFB DC EM. Formal analysis: MTG OL IM JGFB DC EM. Funding acquisition: JGFB EM. Investigation: LSB AGB AEN. Methodology: MTG OL IM JGFB DC EM. Project administration: JGFB EM. Supervision: OL JGFB DC EM. Validation: OL JGFB DC EM. Writing – original draft: MTG OL IM JGFB DC EM LSB. Writing – review & editing: MTG OL IM JGFB DC EM.