About the Authors

Hande Boyaci

Contributed equally to this work with: Hande Boyaci, Tayyab Shah

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Tayyab Shah

Contributed equally to this work with: Hande Boyaci, Tayyab Shah

Current address: Yale School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Amanda Hurley

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Bashkim Kokona

Affiliation Department of Biology, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Zhijie Li

Current address: Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Christian Ventocilla

Current address: Hager Biosciences, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Philip D. Jeffrey

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Martin F. Semmelhack

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Robert Fairman

Affiliation Department of Biology, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Bonnie L. Bassler

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

Frederick M. Hughson

hughson@princeton.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HB TS AH BK ZL CV PDJ MFS RF BLB FMH. Performed the experiments: HB TS AH BK ZL CV PDJ. Analyzed the data: HB TS AH BK ZL CV PDJ MFS RF BLB FMH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HB TS AH ZL CV. Wrote the paper: HB TS AH BK CV PDJ MFS RF BLB FMH.