Additional file 1 of Engineering of the fast-growing cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 11901 to synthesize astaxanthin

Supplementary material 1: Figure S1. Absorption spectra in the visible light range of eluted fractions from HPLC analysis of extracts from WT and bKT cultures, as shown in Figure 2f. Figure S2. Comparison of astaxanthin accumulation in bKT transformants grown in flasks or in 80 ml airlift photobioreactors. Figure S3. Protein expression and RT-PCR analysis of Syn11901 wild type and transformants. Figure S4. HPLC, TLC and MS analysis of BC strain. Figure S5. Absorption spectra in the visible light range of pigments extracts from cultures grown 4 days in airlift PBRs and described in Figure 6.