About the Authors

Ye Feng

Affiliation Genomics Research Center (one of The State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Randal N. Johnston

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Gui-Rong Liu

Affiliation Genomics Research Center (one of The State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Shu-Lin Liu

slliu@ucalgary.ca

Affiliations Genomics Research Center (one of The State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YF SLL. Performed the experiments: YF. Analyzed the data: YF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YF RNJ GRL SLL. Wrote the paper: YF SLL.