About the Authors

Sha Wang

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Functional Genomics, Jiangsu Engineering and Technology Research Center for Microbiology, College of Life Sciences; Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

Jinling Cao

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Functional Genomics, Jiangsu Engineering and Technology Research Center for Microbiology, College of Life Sciences; Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

Xiao Liu

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Functional Genomics, Jiangsu Engineering and Technology Research Center for Microbiology, College of Life Sciences; Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

Hongqin Hu

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Functional Genomics, Jiangsu Engineering and Technology Research Center for Microbiology, College of Life Sciences; Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

Jie Shi

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Functional Genomics, Jiangsu Engineering and Technology Research Center for Microbiology, College of Life Sciences; Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

Shizhu Zhang

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Functional Genomics, Jiangsu Engineering and Technology Research Center for Microbiology, College of Life Sciences; Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

Nancy P. Keller

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Department of Bacteriology and Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, UW-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Ling Lu

linglu@njnu.edu.cn

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Functional Genomics, Jiangsu Engineering and Technology Research Center for Microbiology, College of Life Sciences; Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SW LL. Performed the experiments: SW XL JC JS HH. Analyzed the data: SW LL SZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LL NK. Wrote the paper: LL SW NK.