Hopanoid-free Methylobacterium extorquens DM4 overproduces carotenoids and has widespread growth impairment

• Alexander S. Bradley ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander S. Bradley, Paige K. Swanson

  * E-mail: abradley@eps.wustl.edu (AB); cmarx@uidaho.edu (CM)

  Affiliations Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4044-2802

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• Paige K. Swanson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander S. Bradley, Paige K. Swanson

  Current address: Finch Therapeutics, Somerville, MA, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Emilie E. L. Muller,

  Affiliation Equipe Adaptations et interactions microbiennes, Université de Strasbourg, UMR 7156 UNISTRA–CNRS Génétique Moléculaire, Génomique, Microbiologie, Strasbourg, France

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• Françoise Bringel,

  Affiliation Equipe Adaptations et interactions microbiennes, Université de Strasbourg, UMR 7156 UNISTRA–CNRS Génétique Moléculaire, Génomique, Microbiologie, Strasbourg, France

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• Sean M. Caroll,

  Current address: Pronutria Biosciences, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Ann Pearson,

  Affiliation Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Stéphane Vuilleumier,

  Affiliation Equipe Adaptations et interactions microbiennes, Université de Strasbourg, UMR 7156 UNISTRA–CNRS Génétique Moléculaire, Génomique, Microbiologie, Strasbourg, France

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• Christopher J. Marx

  * E-mail: abradley@eps.wustl.edu (AB); cmarx@uidaho.edu (CM)

  Affiliations Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States of America, Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States of America, Center for Modeling Complex Interactions, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States of America

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