About the Authors

Zhangxun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhangxun Wang, Xiangyang Xue

Affiliation Institute for Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Development, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Xiangyang Xue

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhangxun Wang, Xiangyang Xue

Current address: Department of Microbiology, Wenzhou Medical College, University-town, Wenzhou 325035, China

Affiliation Institute for Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Development, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Jun Sun

Affiliation Institute for Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Development, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Rong Luo

Affiliation Institute for Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Development, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Xindong Xu

Affiliation Institute for Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Development, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yanyan Jiang

Affiliation Institute for Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Development, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Qingfeng Zhang

Affiliation Institute for Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Development, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Weiqing Pan

wqpan0912@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliations Institute for Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Development, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Department of Pathogenic Biology, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Z Wang, X Xue, W Pan. Performed the experiments: Z Wang, X Xue, J Sun, R Luo, X Xu, Y Jiang, Q Zhang. Analyzed the data: Z Wang, X Xue, J Sun, R Luo, W Pan. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: X Xu, Y Jiang, Q Zhang. Wrote the paper: Z Wang, X Xue. Revised the manuscript and finally approved the version of the manuscript for publication: W Pan.