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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by Joint BioEnergy Institute (https://www.jbei.org), which is supported by the DOE, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research under contract DE-AC02-05CH11231 and the National Science Foundation (2027943).

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  1. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, USA

    Jing Huang & Jay D. Keasling

  2. Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, 94608, USA

    Jing Huang & Jay D. Keasling

  3. Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, 94720, USA

    Jing Huang & Jay D. Keasling

  4. Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, 2800, Denmark

    Jay D. Keasling

  5. Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, USA

    Jay D. Keasling

  6. Synthetic Biochemistry Center, Institute for Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes for Advanced Technologies, Shenzhen, 518055, China

    Jay D. Keasling

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Huang, J., Keasling, J.D. Carbene chemistry for unnatural biosynthesis. Sci. China Life Sci. 67, 204–207 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-023-2470-5

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