About the Authors

Zhihua Li

Affiliation Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Insuk Lee

Affiliations Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biotechnology, College of Life science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, 134 Shinchon-dong, Seodaemun-ku, Seoul 120-749, South Korea

Emily Moradi

Affiliation Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Nai-Jung Hung

Affiliation Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Arlen W. Johnson

arlen@mail.utexas.edu (AWJ); marcotte@icmb.utexas.edu (EMM)

Affiliation Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Edward M. Marcotte

arlen@mail.utexas.edu (AWJ); marcotte@icmb.utexas.edu (EMM)

Affiliations Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: ZL AWJ EMM. Performed the experiments: ZL. Analyzed the data: ZL IL EM AWJ EMM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZL NJH IL EM. Wrote the paper: ZL AWJ EMM.