About the Authors
- Rui Jia
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Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Jia, Shilei Ding
Current address: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH) Building 35, Rm 2F240A, 35A Convent Drive, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States of America
Affiliations Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology (Ministry of Education) and Key Laboratory of Microbial Functional Genomics (Tianjin), College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1E2, Canada
- Shilei Ding
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Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Jia, Shilei Ding
Affiliations Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1E2, Canada, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2B4, Canada
- Qinghua Pan
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Affiliation Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1E2, Canada
- Shan-Lu Liu
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine, Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211–7310, United States of America
- Wentao Qiao
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Affiliation Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology (Ministry of Education) and Key Laboratory of Microbial Functional Genomics (Tianjin), College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
- Chen Liang
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* E-mail: chen.liang@mcgill.ca
Affiliations Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1E2, Canada, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2B4, Canada
Competing Interests
CL is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CL WQ. Performed the experiments: RJ SD QP. Analyzed the data: RJ SD SLL CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SLL CL. Wrote the paper: SLL WQ CL.