About the Authors

Teng Bao

Contributed equally to this work with: Teng Bao, Xian Zhang

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Xian Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Teng Bao, Xian Zhang

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Zhiming Rao

raozhm@jiangnan.edu.cn

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Xiaojing Zhao

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Rongzhen Zhang

Affiliation School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Taowei Yang

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Zhenghong Xu

Affiliation School of Medicine and Pharmaceuticals, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Shangtian Yang

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TB X. Zhang ZR. Performed the experiments: TB X. Zhang X. Zhao. Analyzed the data: TB X. Zhang RZ TY ZX SY. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: TB X. Zhang ZR.