About the Authors

Jian Bing

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian Bing, Zhangyue Guan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Shanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity, Department of infectious diseases, Huashan Hospital and State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Industrial Microorganisms, Shanghai, China

Zhangyue Guan

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian Bing, Zhangyue Guan

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Shanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity, Department of infectious diseases, Huashan Hospital and State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Tianhong Zheng

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

Affiliations Shanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity, Department of infectious diseases, Huashan Hospital and State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Industrial Microorganisms, Shanghai, China

Zhijie Zhang

Roles Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China

Shuru Fan

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Shanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity, Department of infectious diseases, Huashan Hospital and State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Industrial Microorganisms, Shanghai, China

Craig L. Ennis

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Merced, California, United States of America, Health Sciences Research Institute, University of California, Merced, California, United States of America

Clarissa J. Nobile

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Merced, California, United States of America, Health Sciences Research Institute, University of California, Merced, California, United States of America

Guanghua Huang

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

huanggh@fudan.edu.cn

Affiliations Shanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity, Department of infectious diseases, Huashan Hospital and State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Industrial Microorganisms, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: CJN is a cofounder of BioSynesis, Inc., a company developing therapeutics and diagnostics for biofilm infections. All other authors declare no conflict of interest.