About the Authors

Andrew McDonagh

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew McDonagh, Natalie D. Fedorova

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Natalie D. Fedorova

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew McDonagh, Natalie D. Fedorova

Affiliation The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jonathan Crabtree

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Yan Yu

Affiliation The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Stanley Kim

Affiliation Korea University, College of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Anam-Dong, Seongbuk-Gu, Seoul, Korea

Dan Chen

Affiliation The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Omar Loss

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Timothy Cairns

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Gustavo Goldman

Affiliation Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Darius Armstrong-James

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Ken Haynes

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Hubertus Haas

Affiliation Biocenter-Divison of Molecular Biology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Markus Schrettl

Affiliation Biocenter-Divison of Molecular Biology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Gregory May

Affiliation Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, UT-Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

William C. Nierman

Affiliations The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, The George Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Washington D.C., United States of America

Elaine Bignell

e.bignell@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM NDF YY SK OL DAJ KH HH MS GM WCN EB. Performed the experiments: YY SK DC OL TC DAJ HH MS GM WCN EB. Analyzed the data: AM NDF JC SK OL GG KH WCN EB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM NDF JC WCN EB. Wrote the paper: AM NDF JC GG KH WCN EB.