About the Authors

Michael J. Dougherty

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael J. Dougherty, Huu M. Tran

Current address: Synthetic Biology Program, Space BioSciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA.

Affiliations The Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, United States of America

Huu M. Tran

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael J. Dougherty, Huu M. Tran

Affiliations The Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, United States of America

Vitalie Stavila

Affiliation Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, United States of America

Bernhard Knierim

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

Anthe George

Affiliations The Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, United States of America

Manfred Auer

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

Paul D. Adams

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

Masood Z. Hadi

Masood.Hadi@NASA.gov

Current address: Synthetic Biology Program, Space BioSciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA.

Affiliations The Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJD HMT MZH. Performed the experiments: MJD HMT VS BK AG MZH. Analyzed the data: MJD HMT VS BK AG MZH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA PDA. Wrote the paper: MJD HMT VS BK AG MA PDA MZH.