About the Authors

Kuancheng Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, United States of America, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, China

Laurie Luckenbaugh

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, United States of America

Xiaojun Ning

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, United States of America

Ji Xi

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, United States of America

Jianming Hu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

juh13@psu.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.