About the Authors

Jinyang Cai

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinyang Cai, Rui Gong, Fengjuan Yan, Wenxin Li

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Rui Gong

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinyang Cai, Rui Gong, Fengjuan Yan, Wenxin Li

Affiliation Hubei International Travel Healthcare Center, Hubei Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau of P. R. China, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Fengjuan Yan

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinyang Cai, Rui Gong, Fengjuan Yan, Wenxin Li

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Chunjie Yu

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Lu Liu

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Wei Wang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Yi Lin

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Mingxiong Guo

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Wenxin Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinyang Cai, Rui Gong, Fengjuan Yan, Wenxin Li

liwxlab@whu.edu.cn (WL); z-huang@whu.edu.cn (ZH)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Zan Huang

liwxlab@whu.edu.cn (WL); z-huang@whu.edu.cn (ZH)

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZH WL RG. Performed the experiments: WW JC FY CY. Analyzed the data: ZH RG JC FY. Provided FACS service for data acquisition: RG. Made the shRNA constructs: LL. Wrote the manuscript: JC ZH WL. Supervised the performance: MG. Provided technical assistance: YL.