About the Authors

Juan Li

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Institute of Animal Health, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, United States of America

Kehua Jin

Roles Data curation, Resources, Validation

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Hubei University of Science and Technology, Xianning, Hubei, China

Min Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, United States of America

Nicholas W. Mathy

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, United States of America

Ai-Yu Gong

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Current address: Department of Microbial Pathogens and Immunity, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, United States of America

Silu Deng

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, United States of America

Gislaine A. Martins

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Research Division of Immunology Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Mingfei Sun

Roles Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Institute of Animal Health, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Juliane K. Strauss-Soukup

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Creighton University College of Arts and Sciences, Omaha, NE, United States of America

Xian-Ming Chen

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

xianmingchen@creighton.edu, xian_m_chen@rush.edu

Current address: Department of Microbial Pathogens and Immunity, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have no financial conflicts of interest.