About the Authors

Yuki Goto

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Bo Li

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Jan Claesen

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom

Yanxiang Shi

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Mervyn J. Bibb

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom

Wilfred A. van der Donk

vddonk@illinois.edu

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: YG BL JC MJB WAvdD. Performed the experiments: YG BL JC YS. Analyzed the data: YG BL JC YS MJB WAvdD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YG BL JC. Wrote the paper: YG MJB WAvdD.