About the Authors

Xiaoping Xiao

Affiliation Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Yang Liu

Affiliation Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Xiaoyan Zhang

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Jing Wang

Affiliation Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Zuofeng Li

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Xiaojing Pang

Affiliation Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Penghua Wang

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Gong Cheng

gongcheng@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GC XX. Performed the experiments: XX YL XZ JW ZL XP. Analyzed the data: XX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PW. Wrote the paper: GC PW.