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Figure 1: Illustration of the overlap between metabolic engineering and synthetic biology by the use of three different approaches to produce a desirable product.

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J.N. was supported in part by the Chalmers Foundation and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. J.D.K. was supported in part by the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center, which is funded by National Science Foundation award no. 0540879, and by the Joint BioEnergy Institute, which is funded by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, through contract DE-AC02-05CH11231.

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Nielsen, J., Keasling, J. Synergies between synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. Nat Biotechnol 29, 693–695 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.1937

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