About the Authors

Jinghua Zhao

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Protein Sciences, Tianjin, 300071, China

Purnima Bhanot

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, 07103, United States of America

Junjie Hu

Affiliations Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Protein Sciences, Tianjin, 300071, China, National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

Qian Wang

wangq@tmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tianjin Medical University, and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Tianjin, 300070, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PB JH QW. Data curation: JZ JH. Formal analysis: JZ PB JH QW. Funding acquisition: JH QW. Investigation: JZ PB JH QW. Methodology: JZ JH QW. Project administration: PB JH QW. Resources: JH QW. Supervision: QW. Validation: JZ PB JH QW. Visualization: JZ. Writing – original draft: JZ PB JH QW. Writing – review & editing: JZ PB JH QW.