About the Authors

James A. J. Arpino

Current address: Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation School of Biosciences, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, United Kingdom

Amy J. Baldwin

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation School of Biosciences, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, United Kingdom

Adam R. McGarrity

Affiliation School of Biosciences, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, United Kingdom

Eric M. Tippmann

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Indiana–Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 46815, United States of America

D. Dafydd Jones

jonesdd@cf.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Biosciences, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EMT DDJ AJB JAJA ARM. Performed the experiments: JAJA AJB ARM. Analyzed the data: JAJA AJB ARM DDJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJB ARM. Wrote the paper: JAJA AJB ARM EMT DDJ.