About the Authors

Nathan P. McNulty

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

Alison R. Erickson

Affiliations Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology, University of Tennessee–Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America, Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Chongle Pan

Affiliation Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Brian K. Erickson

Affiliation Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Eric C. Martens

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

Brian D. Muegge

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

Bernard Henrissat

Affiliation Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, CNRS and Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France

Robert L. Hettich

Affiliations Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology, University of Tennessee–Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America, Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Jeffrey I. Gordon

jgordon@wustl.edu

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: NPM JIG. Performed the experiments: NPM MW ARE NAP. Analyzed the data: NPM MW ARE CP BKE ECM NAP BDM BH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ECM BH RLH JIG. Wrote the paper: NPM ARE RLH JIG.