About the Authors

Wenbin Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Wenbin Guo, Jian Tao

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology for Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, NanKai University, Tianjin, China

Jian Tao

Contributed equally to this work with: Wenbin Guo, Jian Tao

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology for Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, NanKai University, Tianjin, China

Chao Yang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Bioactive Materials for Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, NanKai University, Tianjin, China

Cunjiang Song

songcj@nankai.edu.cn (CS); wangshufang@nankai.edu.cn (SW)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology for Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, NanKai University, Tianjin, China

Weitao Geng

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology for Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, NanKai University, Tianjin, China

Qiang Li

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology for Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, NanKai University, Tianjin, China

Yuanyuan Wang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology for Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, NanKai University, Tianjin, China

Meimei Kong

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Bioactive Materials for Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, NanKai University, Tianjin, China

Shufang Wang

songcj@nankai.edu.cn (CS); wangshufang@nankai.edu.cn (SW)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Bioactive Materials for Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, NanKai University, Tianjin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WBG CJS SFW. Performed the experiments: WBG JT CY WTG QL YYW MMK. Analyzed the data: WBG JT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CJS SFW. Wrote the paper: WBG JT.