About the Authors

Yi Zhen Deng

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Zhen Deng, Ziwei Qu

dengyz@scau.edu.cn (YZD); naweed@tll.org.sg (NIN)

Affiliations Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control, College of Agronomy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Ziwei Qu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Zhen Deng, Ziwei Qu

Affiliation Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Naweed I. Naqvi

dengyz@scau.edu.cn (YZD); naweed@tll.org.sg (NIN)

Affiliations Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZD NIN. Performed the experiments: YZD ZQ. Analyzed the data: YZD ZQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NIN. Wrote the paper: YZD ZQ NIN.