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Attributions and Contributions

We would like to thank the University of British Columbia for providing a copy of the wild type dspB gene. We would also like to thank Dr. Lisa Bowers for her enduring support, guidance, and teaching us our way around the lab. Also thank you to Carolyn Bosse, Kathy Miller, and the Grinnell College Biology Department for providing us with access to instruments and materials for our project. We thank Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) for generously supporting us with oligos and for synthesizing our two genes, esp and dspB, with codons optimized for expression in Caulobacter.