About the Authors

Xiaoqiang Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and Center for Bioengineering and Biotechnology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, Shandong, P. R. China

Guihong Huang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and Center for Bioengineering and Biotechnology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, Shandong, P. R. China

Daoyong Yu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and Center for Bioengineering and Biotechnology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, Shandong, P. R. China

Baosheng Ge

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and Center for Bioengineering and Biotechnology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, Shandong, P. R. China

Jiqian Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and Center for Bioengineering and Biotechnology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, Shandong, P. R. China

Fengxi Xu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and Center for Bioengineering and Biotechnology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, Shandong, P. R. China

Fang Huang

fhuang@upc.edu.cn (FH); xuh@upc.edu.cn (HX)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and Center for Bioengineering and Biotechnology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, Shandong, P. R. China

Hai Xu

fhuang@upc.edu.cn (FH); xuh@upc.edu.cn (HX)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and Center for Bioengineering and Biotechnology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, Shandong, P. R. China

Jian R. Lu

Affiliation Biological Physics Laboratory, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XW BG DY FH HX JRL. Performed the experiments: XW GH FX JW. Analyzed the data: XW GH FX BG DY FH HX JRL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XW GH FX DY JW FH HX. Wrote the manuscript: XW FH HX JRL.