About the Authors

Zhaojuan Zheng

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

Cuiqing Ma

macq@sdu.edu.cn (CM); pingxu@sjtu.edu.cn (PX)

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

Chao Gao

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

Fengsong Li

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

Jiayang Qin

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

Haiwei Zhang

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

Kai Wang

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

Ping Xu

macq@sdu.edu.cn (CM); pingxu@sjtu.edu.cn (PX)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China, MOE Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism and 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: ZZ CM CG PX. Performed the experiments: ZZ CG FL HZ KW. Analyzed the data: ZZ CM CG FL JQ PX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JQ CM PX. Wrote the paper: ZZ CM PX.