About the Authors

Yanbao Yu

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

Keehwan Kwon

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

Tamara Tsitrin

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

Shiferaw Bekele

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

Patricia Sikorski

Current address: Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Georgetown University, N.W., Washington, DC

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

Karen E. Nelson

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

Rembert Pieper

rpieper@jcvi.org

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RP KEN. Performed the experiments: YY KK TT PS RP SB. Analyzed the data: RP YY KK. Wrote the paper: RP YY.