About the Authors

Minmin Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Minmin Hu, Cong Wang, Wan Li, Weiping Lu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P. R. China, Key Laboratory Of Pathogen Biology Of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P. R. China, Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P. R. China

Cong Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Minmin Hu, Cong Wang, Wan Li, Weiping Lu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P. R. China

Wan Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Minmin Hu, Cong Wang, Wan Li, Weiping Lu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P. R. China

Weiping Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Minmin Hu, Cong Wang, Wan Li, Weiping Lu

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Huai’an First People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, 6 Beijing Road West, Huai’an, Jiangsu, P. R. China

Zhiqiang Bai

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P. R. China

Di Qin

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P. R. China

Qin Yan

yanqin@njmu.edu.cn (QY); clu@njmu.edu.cn (CL)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P. R. China

Jianzhong Zhu

Affiliation Cancer Virology Program, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Brian J. Krueger

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Rolf Renne

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Shou-Jiang Gao

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Chun Lu

yanqin@njmu.edu.cn (QY); clu@njmu.edu.cn (CL)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P. R. China, Key Laboratory Of Pathogen Biology Of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P. R. China, Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QY CL. Performed the experiments: MH CW WLi. Analyzed the data: WLu ZB DQ QY JZ SJG CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BJK RR SJG. Wrote the paper: QY SJG CL.