About the Authors

Zijun Xiao

Affiliation Center for Bioengineering & Biotechnology, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, People's Republic of China

Cuiqing Ma

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Ping Xu

pingxu@sjtu.edu.cn (PX); j.lu@manchester.ac.uk (JRL)

Affiliation MOE Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism and School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Jian R. Lu

pingxu@sjtu.edu.cn (PX); j.lu@manchester.ac.uk (JRL)

Affiliation Biological Physics Group, School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZX CM PX. Performed the experiments: ZX CM PX. Analyzed the data: ZX JRL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CM PX. Wrote the paper: ZX PX JRL.