About the Authors

Yue Chen

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

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Berge Hagopian

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shumin Tan

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

shumin.tan@tufts.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.