About the Authors

Gazi Sakir Hossain

Contributed equally to this work with: Gazi Sakir Hossain, Jianghua Li

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China

Jianghua Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Gazi Sakir Hossain, Jianghua Li

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China, Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China, Synergetic Innovation Center Of Food Safety and Nutrition, Wuxi, China

Hyun-dong Shin

Affiliation School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineeirng, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Guocheng Du

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China, Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China, Synergetic Innovation Center Of Food Safety and Nutrition, Wuxi, China

Miao Wang

mwang@jiangnan.edu.cn (MW); longliu@jiangnan.edu.cn (LL)

Affiliation School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China

Long Liu

mwang@jiangnan.edu.cn (MW); longliu@jiangnan.edu.cn (LL)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China, Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China, Synergetic Innovation Center Of Food Safety and Nutrition, Wuxi, China

Jian Chen

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China, Synergetic Innovation Center Of Food Safety and Nutrition, Wuxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GSH JL HDS LL. Performed the experiments: GSH. Analyzed the data: GCD JC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LL MW JC. Wrote the paper: GSH LL.