About the Authors

Yueqin Qiu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yueqin Qiu, Jianbo Chen

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Key Laboratory for Tropical Diseases Control of the Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, College of Life Sciences, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Jianbo Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yueqin Qiu, Jianbo Chen

Affiliation Division of Infection and Immunity, Department for Clinical Microbiological Assays, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China

Hongying Liao

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Yan Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Gene Engineering of the Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Hua Wang

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Hospital of Stomotology, Guanghua School of Stomotology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Shaoyuan Li

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Key Laboratory for Tropical Diseases Control of the Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Yanfen Luo

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Key Laboratory for Tropical Diseases Control of the Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Danyun Fang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Key Laboratory for Tropical Diseases Control of the Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Guobao Li

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China

Boping Zhou

Affiliation Shenzhen Institute of Hepatology, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China

Ling Shen

Affiliation Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Crystal Y. Chen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Primate Biomedical Research, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Dan Huang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Primate Biomedical Research, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jiye Cai

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Kaiyuan Cao

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Key Laboratory for Tropical Diseases Control of the Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Lifang Jiang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Key Laboratory for Tropical Diseases Control of the Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Gucheng Zeng

zenggch@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Key Laboratory for Tropical Diseases Control of the Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Zheng W. Chen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Primate Biomedical Research, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Z.W. Chen, G. Zeng, L. Jiang, J. Cai, L. Shen, K. Cao, Y. Zhang, H. Wang. Performed the experiments: Y. Qiu, J. Chen, H. Liao, S. Li, Y. Luo, D. Fang, G. Li, C.Y. Chen, D. Huang. Analyzed the data: Y. Qiu, J. Chen, H. Liao, S. Li, G. Li, C.Y. Chen, D. Huang. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: J. Chen, G. Li, B. Zhou. Wrote the paper: Z.W. Chen, G. Zeng.