About the Authors

Lu Feng

Contributed equally to this work with: Lu Feng, Peter R. Reeves, Ruiting Lan, Yi Ren

Affiliations TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Nankai University, Tianjin, China, Tianjin Research Center for Functional Genomics and Biochip, Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA), Tianjin, China

Peter R. Reeves

Contributed equally to this work with: Lu Feng, Peter R. Reeves, Ruiting Lan, Yi Ren

Affiliation School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Ruiting Lan

Contributed equally to this work with: Lu Feng, Peter R. Reeves, Ruiting Lan, Yi Ren

Affiliation School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Yi Ren

Contributed equally to this work with: Lu Feng, Peter R. Reeves, Ruiting Lan, Yi Ren

Affiliation TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Chunxu Gao

Affiliation TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Zhemin Zhou

Affiliation TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Yan Ren

Affiliation TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Jiansong Cheng

Affiliation TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Wei Wang

Affiliations TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Nankai University, Tianjin, China, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Microbial Functional Genomics, Nankai University, Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA), Tianjin, China

Jianmei Wang

Affiliation TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Wubin Qian

Affiliation TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Dan Li

Affiliation TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Lei Wang

wanglei@nankai.edu.cn

Affiliations TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Nankai University, Tianjin, China, Tianjin Research Center for Functional Genomics and Biochip, Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA), Tianjin, China, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Microbial Functional Genomics, Nankai University, Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA), Tianjin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LF PRR RL LW. Performed the experiments: LF YR YR WW JW. Analyzed the data: PRR RL YR CG ZZ JC WQ DL LW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PRR RL YR. Wrote the paper: LF PRR RL LW.