Fig. 3

Lycopene production by different E. coli designs. 88 assemblies of the lycopene biosynthesis pathway from the design space were tested in E. coli. Of the 88 constructs, 46 produced colonies after transformation, of which 41 produced detectable lycopene content. Each clone was grown for 24 h in LB broth before lycopene content was determined as mg lycopene per dry cell weight (DCW). Error bars represent the standard deviation across three independent biological replicates