About the Authors

Lei Lei

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

Zhongyu Li

Affiliation University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China

Guangming Zhong

zhongg@uthscsa.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 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: GZ ZL. Performed the experiments: LL. Analyzed the data: LL GZ ZL. Wrote the paper: GZ LL.