About the Authors

Ying Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, HB, China

Han Gong

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, HB, China

Rui Zhan

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, HB, China

Shushan Ouyang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, HB, China

Kyung-Tae Park

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America

Joe Lutkenhaus

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

jlutkenh@kumc.edu (JL); ssdu@whu.edu.cn (SD)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America

Shishen Du

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jlutkenh@kumc.edu (JL); ssdu@whu.edu.cn (SD)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, HB, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.