About the Authors

Yanjun Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanjun Li, Yujun Cui

Affiliation Laboratory of Analytical Microbiology, State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China

Yujun Cui

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanjun Li, Yujun Cui

Affiliation Laboratory of Analytical Microbiology, State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China

Yolande Hauck

Affiliation Université Paris-Sud 11, CNRS, UMR8621, Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Orsay, France

Mikhail E. Platonov

Affiliation State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Obolensk, Moscow Region, Russia

Erhei Dai

Affiliation Laboratory of Analytical Microbiology, State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China

Yajun Song

Affiliation Laboratory of Analytical Microbiology, State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China

Zhaobiao Guo

Affiliation Laboratory of Analytical Microbiology, State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China

Christine Pourcel

Affiliation Université Paris-Sud 11, CNRS, UMR8621, Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Orsay, France

Svetlana V. Dentovskaya

Affiliation State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Obolensk, Moscow Region, Russia

Andrey P. Anisimov

anisimov@obolensk.org (APA); ruifuyang@gmail.com (RY); gilles.vergnaud@u-psud.fr (GV)

Affiliation State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Obolensk, Moscow Region, Russia

Ruifu Yang

anisimov@obolensk.org (APA); ruifuyang@gmail.com (RY); gilles.vergnaud@u-psud.fr (GV)

Affiliation Laboratory of Analytical Microbiology, State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China

Gilles Vergnaud

anisimov@obolensk.org (APA); ruifuyang@gmail.com (RY); gilles.vergnaud@u-psud.fr (GV)

Affiliations Université Paris-Sud 11, CNRS, UMR8621, Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Orsay, France, DGA/D4S - Mission pour la Recherche et l'Innovation Scientifique, Bagneux, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL YC YS CP AA RY GV. Performed the experiments: YL YH MEP ED SVD. Analyzed the data: YL YC YS AA RY GV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZG. Wrote the paper: YL YC CP AA RY GV.