About the Authors

Haibiao Gong

herbert.gong@licor.com

Affiliation LI-COR Biosciences, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Joy L. Kovar

Affiliation LI-COR Biosciences, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Brenda Baker

Affiliation New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America

Aihua Zhang

Affiliation New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lael Cheung

Affiliation LI-COR Biosciences, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Daniel R. Draney

Affiliation LI-COR Biosciences, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Ivan R. Corrêa Jr

Affiliation New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ming-Qun Xu

Affiliation New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America

D. Michael Olive

Affiliation LI-COR Biosciences, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors are employees at LI-COR Biosciences (HG, JLK, LC, DRD and DMO) and New England Biolabs (BB, AZ, IRC and M-QX). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. IRDye(r) 800CW and SNAP(r)-tag are proprietary materials of LI-COR Biosciences and New England Biolabs, respectively.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HG DMO. Performed the experiments: HG JLK BB AZ. Analyzed the data: HG LC DRD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IRC M-QX. Wrote the paper: HG.