About the Authors

Marijke Frederix

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

Kimmo Hütter

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

Jessica Leu

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

Tanveer S. Batth

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

William J. Turner

Affiliation School of Engineering, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Thomas L. Rüegg

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Botanical Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Biology and Biotechnology Division, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America

Harvey W. Blanch

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

Blake A. Simmons

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Biological and Materials Science Center, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, United States of America

Paul D. Adams

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

Jay D. Keasling

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Michael P. Thelen

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Biology and Biotechnology Division, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America

Mary J. Dunlop

Affiliation School of Engineering, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Christopher J. Petzold

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

Aindrila Mukhopadhyay

amukhopadhyay@lbl.gov

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

Competing Interests

J.D.K. has a financial interest in Amyris, LS9 and Lygos. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MF KH CJP MJD AM. Performed the experiments: MF KH JL TSB WJT. Analyzed the data: MF WJT CFP AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TLR MPT HB BAS PDA JDK. Wrote the paper: MF WJT MJD CJP AM.