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acknowledgments
This work was supported by University of California–Davis startup fund and the
Hellman fellowship to S.A. G.M.R. is supported by a US National Institutes of Health
Biotechnology Training Grant Fellowship (T32-GM008799) and a Sloan Fellowship.
Y.T. is supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science postdoctoral fellowship
for research abroad. We would like to thank R. Luu and R.E. Parales (University of
California–Davis) for graciously providing genomic DNA from P. putida g7 and
M. Kato and S.-J. Lin (University of California–Davis) for providing genomic DNA from
S. cerevisiae BY4742. We also thank M.D. Toney and C.A. Rabinovitch-Deere (University
of California–Davis) for critical reading of the manuscript. Finally, we thank S. Desai for
technical assistance with HPLC analysis and for constructing pAL603.
author contributions
G.M.R., Y.T. and S.A. designed research; G.M.R. and Y.T. performed the experiments;
G.M.R., Y.T. and S.A. analyzed data; and G.M.R., Y.T. and S.A. wrote the paper.
Competing financial interests
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
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