About the Authors

Feng Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Feng Zhou, Min Xue, Di Qin

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, Department of Pathogenic Biology and Immunology, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Min Xue

Contributed equally to this work with: Feng Zhou, Min Xue, Di Qin

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, Department of Physiology, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Di Qin

Contributed equally to this work with: Feng Zhou, Min Xue, Di Qin

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Xiaofei Zhu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Cong Wang

Affiliation Pathology of Department, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Jianzhong Zhu

Affiliation Cancer Virology Program, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Tingting Hao

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Lin Cheng

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Xiuying Chen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Zhiqiang Bai

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Ninghan Feng

Affiliation Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Shou-Jiang Gao

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Chun Lu

clu@njmu.edu.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DQ CL. Performed the experiments: FZ MX XZ CW TH LC XC. Analyzed the data: ZB NF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJG. Wrote the paper: FZ JZ CL.