About the Authors

Anne M. Millen

Affiliation DuPont Nutrition and Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Philippe Horvath

Affiliation DuPont Nutrition and Health, Dangé-Saint-Romain, France

Patrick Boyaval

Affiliation DuPont Nutrition and Health, Dangé-Saint-Romain, France

Dennis A. Romero

dennis.romero@dupont.com

Affiliation DuPont Nutrition and Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

All authors are employees of DuPont Nutrition & Health. This manuscript is in part, described in patent application PCT/US2011/057102, LACTOCOCCUS CRISPR-CAS SEQUENCES (WO/2012/054726. This does not in any manner alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMM DAR PH PB. Performed the experiments: AMM. Analyzed the data: AMM DAR PH PB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMM DAR PH. Wrote the paper: AMM DAR.