About the Authors

Taowei Yang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China

Zhiming Rao

raozhm@jiangnan.edu.cn (ZR); zhenghxu@163.com (ZX)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China

Xian Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China

Meijuan Xu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China

Zhenghong Xu

raozhm@jiangnan.edu.cn (ZR); zhenghxu@163.com (ZX)

Current address: School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, P. R. China

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Engineering, School of Medicine and Pharmaceutics, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China

Shang-Tian Yang

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

No conflict of interest exits in the submission of this manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TY ZR XZ MX ZX SY. Performed the experiments: TY. Analyzed the data: TY ZR ZX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TY ZR XZ. Wrote the manuscript: TY ZR ZX SY.