About the Authors

Nyok-Sean Lau

Affiliations Ecobiomaterial Research Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, Synthetic Genomics Research Team, Biomass Engineering Program Cooperation Division, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Choon Pin Foong

Affiliations Ecobiomaterial Research Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, Synthetic Genomics Research Team, Biomass Engineering Program Cooperation Division, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Yukio Kurihara

Affiliation Synthetic Genomics Research Team, Biomass Engineering Program Cooperation Division, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Kumar Sudesh

ksudesh@usm.my (KS); minami@riken.jp (MM)

Affiliation Ecobiomaterial Research Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

Minami Matsui

ksudesh@usm.my (KS); minami@riken.jp (MM)

Affiliation Synthetic Genomics Research Team, Biomass Engineering Program Cooperation Division, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: N-SL KS MM. Performed the experiments: N-SL YK CPF. Analyzed the data: N-SL MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM. Wrote the paper: N-SL.