About the Authors

Dillon B. Nye

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nucleic Acid Replication Division, New England Biolabs Inc., Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nathan A. Tanner

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tanner@neb.com

Affiliation Nucleic Acid Replication Division, New England Biolabs Inc., Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors are employees of New England Biolabs, manufacturer of some enzymes used in the manuscript. A provisional patent application has been filed related to some of the results described in this work. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.