About the Authors

Xin Wang

Current address: Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Affiliations Institute of Human Virology and Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangdong, China, Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nannan Zhu

Affiliation Institute of Human Virology and Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangdong, China

Wenwei Li

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Fanxiu Zhu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Yan Wang

wang93@mail.sysu.edu.cn (YW); yuan2@pobox.upenn.edu (YY)

Affiliations Institute of Human Virology and Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangdong, China, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Yan Yuan

wang93@mail.sysu.edu.cn (YW); yuan2@pobox.upenn.edu (YY)

Affiliations Institute of Human Virology and Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangdong, China, Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XW YW FZ YY. Performed the experiments: XW NZ WL. Analyzed the data: XW YW WL FZ YY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XW FZ YY. Wrote the paper: XW YY.