About the Authors

Yao Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yao Chen, Mikael Sjölinder

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Mikael Sjölinder

Contributed equally to this work with: Yao Chen, Mikael Sjölinder

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Xiao Wang

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Georg Altenbacher

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Matthias Hagner

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Pernilla Berglund

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Yumin Gao

Current address: School of Public Health, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, People’s Republic of China

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Ting Lu

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Ann-Beth Jonsson

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Hong Sjölinder

hong.sjolinder@gmt.su.se

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HS. Performed the experiments: YC XW YG MS GA TL MH PB. Analyzed the data: MS HS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ABJ HS. Wrote the paper: MS HS.