About the Authors

Weiwen Liang

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation HKU-Pasteur Research Pole, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Timothy J. C. Tan

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Yiquan Wang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Huibin Lv

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliation HKU-Pasteur Research Pole, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Yuanxin Sun

Roles Investigation

Affiliations The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Roberto Bruzzone

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations HKU-Pasteur Research Pole, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Istituto Pasteur Italia, Rome, Italy, Centre for Immunology & Infection, Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong SAR, China

Chris K. P. Mok

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

kapunmok@cuhk.edu.hk (CKPM); nicwu@illinois.edu (NCW)

Affiliations The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Nicholas C. Wu

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

kapunmok@cuhk.edu.hk (CKPM); nicwu@illinois.edu (NCW)

Affiliations Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.