About the Authors

Eric C. Martens

Contributed equally to this work with: Eric C. Martens, Elisabeth C. Lowe

emartens@umich.edu (ECM); david.bolam@newcastle.ac.uk (DNB)

Affiliations Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Elisabeth C. Lowe

Contributed equally to this work with: Eric C. Martens, Elisabeth C. Lowe

Affiliation Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, The Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Herbert Chiang

Affiliation Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Nicholas A. Pudlo

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Meng Wu

Affiliation Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Nathan P. McNulty

Affiliation Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

D. Wade Abbott

Affiliation Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Bernard Henrissat

Affiliation Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, CNRS and Universities of Aix-Marseille I & II, Marseille, France

Harry J. Gilbert

Affiliations Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, The Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

David N. Bolam

emartens@umich.edu (ECM); david.bolam@newcastle.ac.uk (DNB)

Affiliation Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, The Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Jeffrey I. Gordon

Affiliation Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 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: ECM ECL DNB JIG. Performed the experiments: ECM ECL HC NAP MW. Analyzed the data: ECM ECL NAP MW BH DNB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ECM ECL DWA HC MW NPM BH DNB. Wrote the paper: ECM ECL DWA BH HJG DNB JIG.