About the Authors

Sean Poust

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Isu Yoon

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Paul D. Adams

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

Leonard Katz

Affiliations Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Christopher J. Petzold

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

Jay D. Keasling

keasling@berkeley.edu

Affiliations Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, QB3 Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Physical Bioscience division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP LK CJP JDK. Performed the experiments: SP IY. Analyzed the data: SP PDA LK CJP JDK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PDA. Wrote the paper: SP LK CJP JDK.