About the Authors

Man-Shan Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Man-Shan Li, Terrence Chi-Kong Lau

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong SAR, China

Terrence Chi-Kong Lau

Contributed equally to this work with: Man-Shan Li, Terrence Chi-Kong Lau

Affiliation Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China

Sophie Ka-Ping Chan

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong SAR, China

Chi-Hang Wong

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong SAR, China

Patrick Kwok-Shing Ng

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong SAR, China

Joseph Jao-Yiu Sung

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong SAR, China

Henry Lik-Yuen Chan

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong SAR, China

Stephen Kwok-Wing Tsui

kwtsui@cuhk.edu.hk

Affiliations School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong SAR, China, Centre for Microbial Genomics and Proteomics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong SAR, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: M-SL TC-KL SK-PC SK-WT. Performed the experiments: M-SL TC-KL. Analyzed the data: M-SL TC-KL PK-SN C-HW HL-YC SK-WT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JJ-YS HL-YC. Wrote the paper: M-SL TC-KL SK-WT.