About the Authors

Hui Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Wang, Shusu Chen, Juan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Shusu Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Wang, Shusu Chen, Juan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Juan Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Wang, Shusu Chen, Juan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Francesca P. Rothenbacher

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Tiantian Jiang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Biao Kan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Zengtao Zhong

mol_microb@njau.edu.cn (ZZ); junzhu@mail.med.upenn.edu (JZ)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Jun Zhu

mol_microb@njau.edu.cn (ZZ); junzhu@mail.med.upenn.edu (JZ)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HW BK ZZ J. Zhu. Performed the experiments: HW SC J. Zhang FR TJ. Analyzed the data: HW SC ZZ J. Zhu. Wrote the paper: HW FR ZZ J. Zhu.