About the Authors

Chunyu Yang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Guangchun Cao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Yang Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Xiaojun Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Hongyan Ren

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Xia Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Jinhui Feng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Liping Zhao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Ping Xu

pingxu@sdu.edu.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CY GC PX. Performed the experiments: CY YL HR. Analyzed the data: CY XW JF PX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GC XZ LZ PX. Wrote the paper: CY PX.