About the Authors

Lixia Zhang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Shunzong Yuan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Genhong Cheng

genhongc@microbio.ucla.edu (GC); guobe@musc.edu (BG)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Beichu Guo

genhongc@microbio.ucla.edu (GC); guobe@musc.edu (BG)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BG GC. Performed the experiments: BG LZ SY. Analyzed the data: BG LZ SY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BG GC. Wrote the paper: BG.