About the Authors

Wenqin Wang

Affiliation Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Wei Zhang

Affiliation Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Yongrui Wu

Current address: Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences 300 Fenglin Road, Shanghai 200032, China

Affiliation Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Pal Maliga

Affiliation Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Joachim Messing

messing@waksman.rutgers.edu

Affiliation Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WW WZ YW PM JM. Performed the experiments: WW WZ YW. Analyzed the data: WW WZ YW PM JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WW YW. Wrote the paper: WW WZ PM JM.