About the Authors

Hui Zhi

Affiliation Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China

Leihan Tang

lhtang@hkbu.edu.hk (LT); yxia@hkbu.edu.hk (YX); jhzhang@cuhk.edu.hk (JZ)

Affiliation Department of Physics, and Center for Quantitative Systems Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China

Yiji Xia

lhtang@hkbu.edu.hk (LT); yxia@hkbu.edu.hk (YX); jhzhang@cuhk.edu.hk (JZ)

Affiliation Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China

Jianhua Zhang

lhtang@hkbu.edu.hk (LT); yxia@hkbu.edu.hk (YX); jhzhang@cuhk.edu.hk (JZ)

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Provided the working conditions including the reagents, buying materials, etc.: JZ. Provided critical reading of the manuscript: YX LT JZ. Conceived and designed the experiments: HZ. Performed the experiments: HZ. Analyzed the data: HZ LT. Wrote the paper: HZ.