About the Authors

Peng Xu

Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Zhe Zhou

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, China

Min Xiong

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, The Children’s Mercy Hospital and University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Wei Zou

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Xuefeng Deng

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Safder S. Ganaie

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Steve Kleiboeker

Affiliation Department of Research and Development, Viracor-IBT Laboratories, Lee’s Summit, Missouri, United States of America

Jianxin Peng

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China

Kaiyu Liu

jqiu@kumc.edu (JQ); liukaiyu@mail.ccnu.edu.cn (KL); sqwang@bmi.ac.cn (SW)

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China

Shengqi Wang

jqiu@kumc.edu (JQ); liukaiyu@mail.ccnu.edu.cn (KL); sqwang@bmi.ac.cn (SW)

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, China

Shui Qing Ye

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, The Children’s Mercy Hospital and University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Jianming Qiu

jqiu@kumc.edu (JQ); liukaiyu@mail.ccnu.edu.cn (KL); sqwang@bmi.ac.cn (SW)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

Steve Kleiboeker is an employee at Viracor-IBT Laboratories. This study has nothing relating to his employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products in the company. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JQ PX. Data curation: MX WZ SQY. Formal analysis: PX MX WZ SQY. Funding acquisition: KL JP SW SQY JQ. Investigation: PX ZZ MX. Methodology: PX ZZ WZ XD SK. Project administration: SW SQY JQ. Resources: SK. Supervision: JP KL SW SQY JQ. Visualization: PX MX WZ JQ. Writing – original draft: PX SSG JQ. Writing – review & editing: JQ SK ZZ KL SQY.