About the Authors

Amit Ghosh

Affiliations Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Jerome Nilmeier

Affiliations Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Daniel Weaver

Affiliations Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Paul D. Adams

Affiliations Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Jay D. Keasling

Affiliations Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States of America

Aindrila Mukhopadhyay

Affiliations Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Christopher J. Petzold

Affiliations Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Héctor García Martín

hgmartin@lbl.gov

Affiliations Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

JDK has financial interests in Amyris, LS9, Lygos. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG HGM. Performed the experiments: AG. Analyzed the data: AG HGM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG JN DW PDA JDK AM CJP HGM. Wrote the paper: AG HGM.