About the Authors

Qinna Cui

Contributed equally to this work with: Qinna Cui, Huinan Lv, Zhuangzhuang Qi

Current address: State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Affiliations Department of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, School of Biological Sciences, Ludong University, Yantai, China, Department of Microbiology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Huinan Lv

Contributed equally to this work with: Qinna Cui, Huinan Lv, Zhuangzhuang Qi

Affiliation Department of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, School of Biological Sciences, Ludong University, Yantai, China

Zhuangzhuang Qi

Contributed equally to this work with: Qinna Cui, Huinan Lv, Zhuangzhuang Qi

Affiliation Department of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, School of Biological Sciences, Ludong University, Yantai, China

Bei Jiang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Bo Xiao

Affiliation Department of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, School of Biological Sciences, Ludong University, Yantai, China

Linde Liu

Affiliation Department of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, School of Biological Sciences, Ludong University, Yantai, China

Yihe Ge

geyihe@ldu.edu.cn (YG); hxmay2008@163.com (XH)

Affiliation Department of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, School of Biological Sciences, Ludong University, Yantai, China

Xiaomei Hu

geyihe@ldu.edu.cn (YG); hxmay2008@163.com (XH)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YG XH. Performed the experiments: QC HL ZQ BJ. Analyzed the data: BX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LL. Wrote the paper: YG XH.