About the Authors

Sukanya Iyer

Contributed equally to this work with: Sukanya Iyer, David K. Karig

Affiliations Graduate Program in Genome Science and Technology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America, Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

David K. Karig

Contributed equally to this work with: Sukanya Iyer, David K. Karig

Affiliation Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

S. Elizabeth Norred

Affiliation Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Michael L. Simpson

Affiliations Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America, Center for Environmental Biotechnology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Mitchel J. Doktycz

doktyczmj@ornl.gov

Affiliations Graduate Program in Genome Science and Technology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America, Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SI DKK SEN MLS MJD. Performed the experiments: SI DKK SEN. Analyzed the data: SI DKK SEN MLS MJD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SI DKK SEN MLS MJD. Wrote the manuscript: SI DKK SEN MLS MJD.