About the Authors

David T. Fox

dfox@lanl.gov (DTF); andy.koppisch@nau.edu (ATK)

Affiliation Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Emily N. Schmidt

Affiliation Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Hongzhao Tian

Affiliation Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Suraj Dhungana

Current address: Discovery and Analytical Sciences, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Michael C. Valentine

Affiliation Department of Biology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Nicole V. Warrington

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Paul D. Phillips

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Kellan B. Finney

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Emily K. Cope

Affiliation Department of Biology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Jeff G. Leid

Affiliation Department of Biology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Charles A. Testa

Affiliation Echelon Biosciences, Inc, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Andrew T. Koppisch

dfox@lanl.gov (DTF); andy.koppisch@nau.edu (ATK)

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

C. Testa is currently employed by Echelon Biosciences. No compensation was linked to the use of these research tools. Strain CT12 is covered under U.S. patent number 7,736,881 entitled “Antibacterial and Herbicidal Compounds and System for Screening the Same”. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DTF ATK. Performed the experiments: ES HT SD NVW MCV PDP KBF. Analyzed the data: DTF SD EKC JGL CAT ATK. Wrote the paper: DTF ATK.