About the Authors
- Elsa Petit
-
Contributed equally to this work with: Elsa Petit, W. Greg LaTouf
Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
- W. Greg LaTouf
-
Contributed equally to this work with: Elsa Petit, W. Greg LaTouf
Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Maddalena V. Coppi
-
Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Thomas A. Warnick
-
Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Devin Currie
-
Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Igor Romashko
-
Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Supriya Deshpande
-
Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Kelly Haas
-
Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Jesús G. Alvelo-Maurosa
-
Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Colin Wardman
-
Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Danny J. Schnell
-
Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Susan B. Leschine
-
Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Jeffrey L. Blanchard
-
* E-mail: blanchard@microbio.umass.edu
Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: One of the funders, Qteros, was involved in identifying microbial fermentation products presented in Fig 1 using HPLC and GC. SL and TW have equity interest in Qteros. Two patents have been issued for the use of C. phytofermentans in biofuel production or for manipulating genes described in this manuscript to improve the production of biofuel: Leschine S & Warnick TA (2010) Systems and methods for producing biofuels and related materials. U.S. Patent No. 7,682,811 (Issued March 23, 2010); Blanchard J, Leschine S, Fabel J and Petit E (2011) Methods and compositions for improving the production of ethanol in microorganisms. U.S. Patent No. 7,943,363 (Issued May 16, 2011). This does not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials; as detailed the authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts. One of the funders, Qteros, was involved in identifying microbial fermentation products presented in Fig 1 using HPLC and GC. SL and TW have equity interest in Qteros. Two patents have been issued for the use of C. phytofermentans in biofuel production or for manipulating genes described in this manuscript to improve the production of biofuel: Leschine S & Warnick TA (2010) Systems and methods for producing biofuels and related materials. U.S. Patent No. 7,682,811 (Issued March 23, 2010); Blanchard J, Leschine S, Fabel J and Petit E (2011) Methods and compositions for improving the production of ethanol in microorganisms. U.S. Patent No. 7,943,363 (Issued May 16, 2011). This does not alter the authors‚ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: EP WGL TW DC KH JA CW DS SL JB. Performed the experiments: EP WGL TW DC SD KH JA CW. Analyzed the data: EP WGL MC IR KH JA CW DS SL JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DS SL JB. Wrote the paper: EP WGF MC KH JA CW SL JB.