About the Authors

Safiyh Taghavi

Affiliation Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, United States of America

Daniel van der Lelie

vdlelied@bnl.gov

Affiliation Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, United States of America

Adam Hoffman

Affiliation Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, United States of America

Yian-Biao Zhang

Affiliation Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, United States of America

Michael D. Walla

Affiliation Mass Spectrometer Center, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Jaco Vangronsveld

Affiliation Department of Environmental Biology, Universiteit Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium

Lee Newman

Affiliation Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, United States of America

Sébastien Monchy

Affiliation Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST DvdL LN. Performed the experiments: ST AH YBZ MDW. Analyzed the data: ST DvdL AH YBZ MDW LN SM. Wrote the paper: DvdL JV SM.