About the Authors

Chao Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Chao Gao, Tianyi Jiang

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

Tianyi Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chao Gao, Tianyi Jiang

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

Peipei Dou

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

Cuiqing Ma

macq@sdu.edu.cn (CM); pingxu@sjtu.edu.cn (PX)

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

Lixiang Li

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

Jian Kong

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

Ping Xu

macq@sdu.edu.cn (CM); pingxu@sjtu.edu.cn (PX)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism and 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: PX CM CG. Performed the experiments: CG TJ PD. Analyzed the data: LL CG TJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JK CM PX. Wrote the paper: CG TJ CM PX.