Table 1.

Bacterial strains used in the study.

Name	Genotype	Description	Source/reference
ADP1 WT	Wild type A. baylyi ADP1	Control strain for WE production study.	DSM 24193, DSMZ
ADP1 ΔaceA	A. baylyi ADP1 ΔaceA::kanr	Strain with aceA deletion for WE production study.	This study
ADP1 Δacr1	A. baylyi ADP1 Δacr1::kanr	Background strain with acr1 deletion for constructing W1.	de Berardinis et al. (2008)
ADP1 Acr1	A. baylyi ADP1 Δacr1::cmr, Δpp::PT5-acr1-specr	Strain with acr1 overexpression at the prophage region of ADP1 genome for WE production study.	This study
W1	A. baylyi ADP1 Δacr1::kanr, ΔaceA::PT5-acr1-specr	Strain with aceA deletion and acr1 overexpression for WE production study.	This study
ADP1+iluxAB	A. baylyi ADP1 ΔpoxB::PT5-luxAB,cmr	Control strain with luxAB expression for the study of fatty aldehyde production and amino acid utilization.	Santala et al. (2011a)
ADP1 ΔaceA ​+ ​iluxAB	A. baylyi ADP1 ΔaceA::kanr, ΔpoxB::PT5-luxAB,cmr	Strain with aceA deletion and luxAB expression for the study of fatty aldehyde production.	This study
ADP1 Acr1+iluxAB	A. baylyi ADP1 Δpp::PT5-acr1-specr, ΔpoxB,metY,acr1:: PT5-luxAB-kanr	Strain with acr1 overexpression at the prophage region of ADP1 and luxAB expression for the study of fatty aldehyde production.	This study
W1+iluxAB	A. baylyi ADP1 Δacr1::kanr, ΔaceA::PT5-acr1-specr, ΔpoxB::PT5-luxAB,cmr	Strain with aceA deletion, acr1 overexpression and luxAB expression for the study of fatty aldehyde production.	This study
W2+iluxAB	A. baylyi ADP1 ΔaceA::PT5-acr1-kanr, ΔpoxB,metY,acr1:: PT5-luxAB-specr	Control strain with luxAB expression for the study of the effect of the mutation in the acr1 of W1 on fatty aldehyde production.	This study
ADP1 FAR-neg.+iluxAB	ΔpoxB,metY,acr1:: PT5-luxAB-kanr	Negative control strain with luxAB expression and without fatty acyl-CoA reductase for the study of fatty aldehyde production.	Lehtinen et al. (2018a)