About the Authors

Jihu Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jihu Lu, Peipei Wu

Affiliation National Research Center of Engineering and Technology for Veterinary Biologicals, Ministry of Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biological Engineering and Technology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Peipei Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jihu Lu, Peipei Wu

Affiliation National Research Center of Engineering and Technology for Veterinary Biologicals, Ministry of Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biological Engineering and Technology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Xuehua Zhang

Affiliation National Research Center of Engineering and Technology for Veterinary Biologicals, Ministry of Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biological Engineering and Technology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Lei Feng

Affiliation National Research Center of Engineering and Technology for Veterinary Biologicals, Ministry of Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biological Engineering and Technology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Bin Dong

Affiliation National Research Center of Engineering and Technology for Veterinary Biologicals, Ministry of Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biological Engineering and Technology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Xuan Chu

Affiliation National Research Center of Engineering and Technology for Veterinary Biologicals, Ministry of Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biological Engineering and Technology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Xiufan Liu

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for the Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonoses, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, PR China

Daxin Peng

pengdx@yzu.edu.cn (DP); houjibo@yahoo.com (JH); tyinghua@yahoo.com (YT)

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for the Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonoses, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, PR China

Yuan Liu

Affiliation Program of Cellular Biology and Immunology, Department of Biology, Center for Inflammation, Immunity and Infection, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Huailiang Ma

Affiliation Emory Vaccine Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jibo Hou

pengdx@yzu.edu.cn (DP); houjibo@yahoo.com (JH); tyinghua@yahoo.com (YT)

Affiliation National Research Center of Engineering and Technology for Veterinary Biologicals, Ministry of Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biological Engineering and Technology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Yinghua Tang

pengdx@yzu.edu.cn (DP); houjibo@yahoo.com (JH); tyinghua@yahoo.com (YT)

Affiliation National Research Center of Engineering and Technology for Veterinary Biologicals, Ministry of Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biological Engineering and Technology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL PW JH DP YT. Performed the experiments: JL PW YT XZ LF BD XC. Analyzed the data: JL PW HM JH DP YL XL YT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL PW XZ LF BD XC. Wrote the paper: JL PW HM JH DP YL XL YT.