About the Authors

Xinping Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xinping Xu, Jianfeng Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Xiaorong.Lin@uga.edu (XL); xiaoxuxin@163.com (XX)

Affiliations Center for Experimental Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Jianfeng Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Xinping Xu, Jianfeng Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Youbao Zhao

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Elyssa Kirkman

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Yee-Seul So

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Yong-Sun Bahn

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Xiaorong Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Xiaorong.Lin@uga.edu (XL); xiaoxuxin@163.com (XX)

Affiliations Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.