About the Authors

Jieyun Jiang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Xianfang Wu

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Hengli Tang

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Guangxiang Luo

gluo@uab.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Peking University College of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GL. Performed the experiments: JJ XW. Analyzed the data: GL JJ XW HT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HT. Wrote the paper: GL JJ.