About the Authors

Michael T. Guarnieri

michael.guarnieri@nrel.gov

Affiliation National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, United States of America

Ambarish Nag

Affiliation Computational Science Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, United States of America

Sharon L. Smolinski

Affiliation Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, United States of America

Al Darzins

Current address: Biochemical Sciences and Engineering, DuPont Central Research and Development, Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America

Affiliation National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, United States of America

Michael Seibert

Affiliation Energy Sciences Directorate, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, United States of America

Philip T. Pienkos

Affiliation National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

This work was funded in part by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC. 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: MTG AN SS AD MS PTP. Performed the experiments: MTG AN SS. Analyzed the data: MTG AN AD PTP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MTG AN SS AD PTP. Wrote the paper: MTG AN SS AD MS PTP.