Acknowledgements
We acknowledge funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG) through the Emmy Noether program (WI 4255/1-1) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) through the NO-STRESS project (FKZ 031B0852A). The laboratory of Lars M. Blank is partially funded by the DFG under Germany’s Excellence Strategy within the Cluster of Excellence FSC 2186 ‘The Fuel Science Center’. We would like to thank Gregg T. Beckham for technical advice regarding the production ofcis,cis -muconate.