About the Authors

Bishi Fu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lingyan Wang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hao Ding

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Jens C. Schwamborn

Affiliation Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Shitao Li

lishitao@hotmail.com (SL); dorf@hms.harvard.edu (MED)

Affiliation Department of Physiological Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Martin E. Dorf

lishitao@hotmail.com (SL); dorf@hms.harvard.edu (MED)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL MED. Performed the experiments: BF LW. Analyzed the data: BF HD JCS SL MED. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HD JCS. Wrote the paper: BF HD SL MED.