About the Authors

Xue-Qin Xie

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China

Fang Li

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China

Sheng-Hua Ying

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China

Ming-Guang Feng

mgfeng@zju.edu.cn

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: M-GF X-QX. Performed the experiments: X-QX FL S-HY. Analyzed the data: M-GF X-QX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: X-QX FL S-HY. Wrote the paper: X-QX M-GF.