About the Authors

Nicolas Barraud

n.barraud@unsw.edu.au

Affiliation Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation and School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Alberto Buson

Affiliation Pharmaxis Ltd, Frenchs Forest, New South Wales, Australia

Wolfgang Jarolimek

Affiliation Pharmaxis Ltd, Frenchs Forest, New South Wales, Australia

Scott A. Rice

Affiliations Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation and School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, and the School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

Authors Wolfgang Jarolimek and Alberto Buson work for Pharmaxis Ltd. The study was partially funded by Pharmaxis Ltd. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NB AB WJ SR. Performed the experiments: NB. Analyzed the data: NB AB WJ SR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NB SR. Wrote the manuscript: NB AB WJ SR.