About the Authors

Rachel L. Erlich

Current address: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Environmental Health Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rebecca C. Fry

Current address: UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Environmental Health Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Thomas J. Begley

Current address: Department of Biomedical Sciences, University at Albany, State University of NY, Rensselear, New York, United States of America

Affiliations Center for Environmental Health Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Danielle L. Daee

Affiliation Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Robert S. Lahue

Current address: Department of Biochemistry, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, United Kingdom

Affiliation Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Leona D. Samson

lsamson@mit.edu

Affiliations Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Environmental Health Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RLE RCF DLD RL LDS. Performed the experiments: RLE DLD. Analyzed the data: RLE RCF DLD RL LDS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RLE TB DLD RL. Wrote the paper: RLE.