About the Authors

Qiang He

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University-Helmholtz Institute of Biotechnology, Shandong University, Jinan, China, School of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China

Le Li

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China

Tingting Yang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University-Helmholtz Institute of Biotechnology, Shandong University, Jinan, China, School of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China

Ruijuan Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University-Helmholtz Institute of Biotechnology, Shandong University, Jinan, China

Aiying Li

aiyli@126.com

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University-Helmholtz Institute of Biotechnology, Shandong University, Jinan, China, School of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AL. Performed the experiments: QH LL TY. Analyzed the data: TY RL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AL. Wrote the paper: AL. Obtained permission for use of pIK340: KI.