About the Authors

Chengtuo Niu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chengtuo Niu, Linjiang Zhu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China

Linjiang Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chengtuo Niu, Linjiang Zhu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China

Xin Xu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China

Qi Li

liqi@jiangnan.edu.cn

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CTN QL. Performed the experiments: CTN XX. Analyzed the data: CTN LJZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LJZ XX. Wrote the paper: CTN LJZ QL.