About the Authors

Huiqing Hu

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

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

Xianxian Han

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

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

We declare no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HH ZL. Formal analysis: HH QZ XH ZL. Funding acquisition: ZL. Investigation: HH QZ XH. Methodology: HH QZ XH. Project administration: ZL. Supervision: ZL. Validation: HH QZ XH ZL. Visualization: HH QZ XH ZL. Writing – original draft: HH ZL. Writing – review & editing: HH ZL.