About the Authors

Hui Ding

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

Garrett W. Buzzard

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

Sisi Huang

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

Michael G. Sehorn

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

R. Kenneth Marcus

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

Yanzhang Wei

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

ywei@clemson.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.