About the Authors

Zhemin Zhou

Affiliations Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, Tianjin Research Center for Functional Genomics and Biochip, Tianjin, China

Xiaomin Li

Affiliation Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Bin Liu

Affiliations Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, Tianjin Research Center for Functional Genomics and Biochip, Tianjin, China

Lothar Beutin

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory for Escherichia coli, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany

Jianguo Xu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Yan Ren

Affiliation Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Lu Feng

Affiliations Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, Tianjin Research Center for Functional Genomics and Biochip, Tianjin, China

Ruiting Lan

Affiliation School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Peter R. Reeves

Affiliation School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Lei Wang

wanglei@nankai.edu.cn

Affiliations Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, Tianjin Research Center for Functional Genomics and Biochip, Tianjin, China, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Microbial Functional Genomics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LF RL PRR LW. Performed the experiments: ZZ XL BL YR. Analyzed the data: ZZ LB JX LF RL PRR LW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LB JX. Wrote the paper: ZZ LF RL PRR LW.