About the Authors

Aymerick Eudes

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emery Station East, 5885 Hollis St, 4th Floor, Emeryville, California, 94608, United States of America, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States of America

Veronica Teixeira Benites

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emery Station East, 5885 Hollis St, 4th Floor, Emeryville, California, 94608, United States of America, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States of America, Graduate Program, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, 94132, United States of America

George Wang

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emery Station East, 5885 Hollis St, 4th Floor, Emeryville, California, 94608, United States of America, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States of America

Edward E. K. Baidoo

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emery Station East, 5885 Hollis St, 4th Floor, Emeryville, California, 94608, United States of America, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States of America

Taek Soon Lee

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emery Station East, 5885 Hollis St, 4th Floor, Emeryville, California, 94608, United States of America, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States of America

Jay D. Keasling

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emery Station East, 5885 Hollis St, 4th Floor, Emeryville, California, 94608, United States of America, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering & Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States of America

Dominique Loqué

dloque@lbl.gov

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emery Station East, 5885 Hollis St, 4th Floor, Emeryville, California, 94608, United States of America, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States of America

Competing Interests

Jay D. Keasling has competing of interest in Amyris, LS9, and Lygos, and Dominique Loqué has competing of interest in Afingen.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AE DL. Performed the experiments: AE VTB GW EB. Analyzed the data: AE VTB GW EB DL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AE EB JK DL TSL. Wrote the paper: AE EB JK DL.