About the Authors

Wenjie Ye

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Debamita Paul

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Lina Gao

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jolita Seckute

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Ramiah Sangaiah

† Deceased.

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Karupiah Jayaraj

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Zhenfa Zhang

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

P. Alexandre Kaminski

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Unité de Chimie et Biocatalyse, UMR CNRS, Paris, France

Steven E. Ealick

Contributed equally to this work with: Steven E. Ealick, Avram Gold, Louise M. Ball

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Avram Gold

Contributed equally to this work with: Steven E. Ealick, Avram Gold, Louise M. Ball

golda@email.unc.edu

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Louise M. Ball

Contributed equally to this work with: Steven E. Ealick, Avram Gold, Louise M. Ball

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SEE AG LMB. Performed the experiments: WY DP LG JW RS KJ ZZ PAK. Analyzed the data: SEE AG LMB WY DP JS ZZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LG RS ZZ PAK. Wrote the paper: AG LMB SEE.