About the Authors

Si-Min Yuan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Wen-Chao Nie

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Fei He

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Zhi-Wen Jia

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Xiang-Dong Gao

xdgao@whu.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Hubei Provincial Cooperative Innovation Center of Industrial Fermentation, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SMY WCN FH XDG. Performed the experiments: SMY WCN FH ZWJ. Analyzed the data: SMY WCN FH ZWJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FH ZWJ. Wrote the paper: SMY XDG.