About the Authors

Binbin Sheng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Zhaojuan Zheng

Affiliation College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Min Lv

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Haiwei Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Tong Qin

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Chao Gao

jieerbu@sdu.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Cuiqing Ma

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Ping Xu

Current address: State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BS CG CM PX. Performed the experiments: BS ML HZ TQ. Analyzed the data: BS ZZ CG CM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CG CM PX. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: BS CG CM PX.