About the Authors

Jing Zhang

Affiliation NUS Graduate School for Integrative Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Jingyun Koh

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Jinhua Lu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Steffen Thiel

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

Benjamin S. H. Leong

Affiliation Emergency Medicine Department, National University Hospital, Singapore

Sunil Sethi

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Cynthia Y. X. He

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Bow Ho

Contributed equally to this work with: Bow Ho, Jeak L. Ding

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Jeak L. Ding

Contributed equally to this work with: Bow Ho, Jeak L. Ding

dbsdjl@nus.edu.sg

Affiliations NUS Graduate School for Integrative Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JZ JL BH JLD. Performed the experiments: JZ JYK CYH JLD. Analyzed the data: JZ JYK JL ST BSHL SS CYH BH JLD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ST BSHL SS BH. Wrote the paper: JZ JYK JL ST BSHL CYH BH JLD.