About the Authors

Wenchao Chen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

Guopeng Yang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

Yue He

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

Shaoming Zhang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

Haiyan Chen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

Ping Shen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

Xiangdong Chen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

Yu-Ping Huang

yphuang@whu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y-PH WC. Performed the experiments: WC GY YH SZ HC. Analyzed the data: Y-PH WC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PS XC. Wrote the paper: Y-PH WC.