About the Authors
- Caroline E. Whidden
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Contributed equally to this work with: Caroline E. Whidden, Katrina G. DeZeeuw
Affiliation Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, Canada
- Katrina G. DeZeeuw
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Contributed equally to this work with: Caroline E. Whidden, Katrina G. DeZeeuw
Affiliation Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, Canada
- Jackie K. Zorz
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Affiliation Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, Canada
- Andrew P. Joy
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Affiliation Atlantic Cancer Research Institute, Moncton, NB, Canada
- David A. Barnett
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Affiliation Atlantic Cancer Research Institute, Moncton, NB, Canada
- Milo S. Johnson
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
- Olga Zhaxybayeva
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* E-mail: olga.zhaxybayeva@dartmouth.edu (OZ); acockshutt@mta.ca (AMC)
Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
- Amanda M. Cockshutt
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* E-mail: olga.zhaxybayeva@dartmouth.edu (OZ); acockshutt@mta.ca (AMC)
Affiliation Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, Canada
Competing Interests
Amanda M. Cockshutt has read the journal's policy and has the following conflict: Amanda M. Cockshutt is a part owner of Environmental Proteomics NB Inc. who developed with Agrisera AB the antibodies used in this work. The authors confirm that co-author Amanda M. Cockshutt is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board Member. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AMC OZ. Performed the experiments: CEW KGD JKZ APJ DAB MSJ. Analyzed the data: CEW KGD JKZ APJ DAB MSJ OZ AMC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMC. Wrote the paper: CEW OZ AMC. Conceived the study, interpreted results and wrote the manuscript: AMC OZ. Performed transcriptional analyses, initial bioinformatics and cloning of PSHCP for antibody generation: KGD. Performed pull down assays and composed much of the manuscript: CEW. Performed quantitative immunoblotting experiments: JKZ. Performed the mass spectrometry experiments: AJ DB. Performed computational analyses of the evolution of rRNA genes in cyanobacteria: MSJ.