About the Authors

Hiroko Tsuruta

Affiliation Amyris Biotechnologies, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Christopher J. Paddon

Paddon@amyris.com

Affiliation Amyris Biotechnologies, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Diana Eng

Affiliation Amyris Biotechnologies, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Jacob R. Lenihan

Affiliation Amyris Biotechnologies, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Tizita Horning

Affiliation Amyris Biotechnologies, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Larry C. Anthony

Current address: DuPont Central Research & Development, Experimental Station E328/345B, Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America

Affiliation Amyris Biotechnologies, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Rika Regentin

Affiliation Amyris Biotechnologies, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Jay D. Keasling

Affiliations Departments of Chemical Engineering and of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Neil S. Renninger

Affiliation Amyris Biotechnologies, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Jack D. Newman

Affiliation Amyris Biotechnologies, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

All authors are shareholders or hold share options in Amyris Biotechnologies.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HT CJP JRL TH LCA RR NSR JDN. Performed the experiments: HT CJP DE JRL TH LCA. Analyzed the data: HT CJP DE JRL TH LCA RR NSR JDN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JDK. Wrote the paper: HT CJP.