About the Authors

Chijioke J. Joshua

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

Luis D. Perez

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

Jay D. Keasling

Keasling@berkeley.edu

Affiliations Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, 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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CJJ JDK. Performed the experiments: CJJ LDP. Analyzed the data: CJJ JDK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JDK. Wrote the manuscript: CJJ JDK.