About the Authors

Jiayang Qin

Affiliations Tianjin Industrial Biotechnology R&D Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, People's Republic of China, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Bo Zhao

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Xiuwen Wang

Affiliations Tianjin Industrial Biotechnology R&D Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, People's Republic of China, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Limin Wang

Affiliations Tianjin Industrial Biotechnology R&D Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, People's Republic of China, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Bo Yu

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Yanhe Ma

Affiliations Tianjin Industrial Biotechnology R&D Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, People's Republic of China, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Cuiqing Ma

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Hongzhi Tang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Jibin Sun

Affiliation Tianjin Industrial Biotechnology R&D Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, People's Republic of China

Ping Xu

pingxu@sjtu.edu.cn

Affiliations Tianjin Industrial Biotechnology R&D Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, People's Republic of China, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PX JQ. Performed the experiment: JQ BZ XW BY PX. Analyzed the data: JQ PX BZ HT JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PX LW YM CM. Wrote the paper: JQ PX.