About the Authors

Hongjun Jin

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongjun Jin, Yanfeng Zhang

hongjunj@mir.wustl.edu

Affiliation Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Yanfeng Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongjun Jin, Yanfeng Zhang

Affiliation Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Garry W. Buchko

Affiliation Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Susan M. Varnum

Affiliation Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Howard Robinson

Affiliation Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, United States of America

Thomas C. Squier

Affiliation Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Philip E. Long

Affiliation Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HJ. Performed the experiments: HJ YZ HR. Analyzed the data: HJ YZ GWB TCS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HJ. Wrote the paper: HJ YZ GWB TCS SMV PEL.