About the Authors

Xiaohui Ju

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Yunkai Zhu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology (MOE/NHC/CAMS), School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College, Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Yuyan Wang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology (MOE/NHC/CAMS), School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College, Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Jingrui Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Jiaxing Zhang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Mingli Gong

Roles Investigation

Affiliation School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Wenlin Ren

Roles Investigation

Affiliation School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Sai Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Supervision

Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Jin Zhong

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unit of Viral Hepatitis, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Linqi Zhang

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Rong Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology (MOE/NHC/CAMS), School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College, Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Qiang Ding

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

qding@tsinghua.edu.cn

Affiliations School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Q.D. and X.J. have filed a patent application on the use of the SARS-CoV-2 transcomplementation system and its use for anti-SARS-CoV-2 drug screening.