About the Authors

Luying Wang

Affiliations The 3rd Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 400000, P. R. China, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Qi Zhang

Affiliations The 3rd Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 400000, P. R. China, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Tianyuan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Yuyang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Cuiming Zhu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Xin Sun

Affiliation The 3rd Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 400000, P. R. China

Nu Zhang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Min Xue

Xuemin5908@sina.com (MX); Zhongg@UTHSCSA.EDU (GZ)

Affiliation The 3rd Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 400000, P. R. China

Guangming Zhong

Xuemin5908@sina.com (MX); Zhongg@UTHSCSA.EDU (GZ)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LW XS NZ MX GZ. Performed the experiments: LW QZ TZ YZ CZ. Analyzed the data: LW MX GZ. Wrote the paper: LW NZ GZ.