About the Authors

Jianlin Shao

Affiliation Department of Biology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Dong Xu

Affiliation Department of Mathematics & Scientific Computing Key Laboratory of Shanghai Universities, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China

Sau-Na Tsai

Affiliation Department of Biology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Yifei Wang

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China

Sai-Ming Ngai

smngai@cuhk.edu.hk

Affiliations Department of Biology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology and Agricultural Biotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS SMN. Performed the experiments: JS DX. Analyzed the data: JS YW SMN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JS DX SNT. Wrote the paper: JS SMN.