About the Authors

Xiangli Wu

Current address: Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Affiliations Public Health Research Institute, New Jersey Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology and Department of Microbiology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Xiuhong Wang

Affiliations Public Health Research Institute, New Jersey Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China

Karl Drlica

Affiliations Public Health Research Institute, New Jersey Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, New Jersey Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Xilin Zhao

zhaox5@umdnj.edu

Affiliations Public Health Research Institute, New Jersey Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, New Jersey Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XZ. Performed the experiments: X. Wu X. Wang. Analyzed the data: X. Wu X. Wang KD XZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: X. Wu X. Wang. Wrote the paper: X. Wu KD XZ.