About the Authors

Huiqing Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Huiqing Hu, Yasuhiro Kurasawa

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yasuhiro Kurasawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Huiqing Hu, Yasuhiro Kurasawa

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Qing Zhou

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ziyin Li

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

Ziyin.Li@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.