About the Authors

Michael Poulsen

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Poulsen, Dong-Chan Oh

Affiliations Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Biology, Section for Ecology and Evolution, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Dong-Chan Oh

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Poulsen, Dong-Chan Oh

Affiliations Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Natural Products Research Institute, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Jon Clardy

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Cameron R. Currie

currie@bact.wisc.edu

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

Michael Poulsen received support from Carlsberg Foundation for his post-doctoral studies. This philanthropic program developed by Carlsberg beer company is designed to support pure science research in Denmark, and as such, does not constitute competing interests. Further, this does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MP D-CO JC CRC. Performed the experiments: MP D-CO. Analyzed the data: MP D-CO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC CRC. Wrote the paper: MP D-CO JC CRC.