About the Authors

Huiling Song

Affiliations Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Donghua University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Qing Meng

mengqing@dhu.edu.cn (QM); paul.liu@dal.ca (XQL)

Affiliation Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Donghua University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Xiang-Qin Liu

mengqing@dhu.edu.cn (QM); paul.liu@dal.ca (XQL)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XQL. Performed the experiments: HS. Analyzed the data: HS QM XQL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QM XQL. Wrote the paper: HS XQL.