About the Authors

Dalong Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Dalong Hu, Bin Liu

Affiliation TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Bin Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Dalong Hu, Bin Liu

Affiliations TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, The Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, China

Lenie Dijkshoorn

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Lei Wang

Affiliations TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, The Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, China, Tianjin Research Center for Functional Genomics and Biochip, Tianjin, China

Peter R. Reeves

peter.reeves@sydney.edu.au

Affiliation School of Molecular Bioscience, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Competing Interests

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Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PR LW LD. Performed the experiments: DH BL PR. Analyzed the data: PR DH BL LW. Wrote the paper: PR BL DH LD LW.