About the Authors

Ming Tan

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming Tan, Ming Xia

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Ming Xia

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming Tan, Ming Xia

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Yutao Chen

Affiliation National Laboratory of Bio macromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China

Weiming Bu

Affiliation Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Rashmi S. Hegde

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Jarek Meller

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Xuemei Li

Affiliation National Laboratory of Bio macromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China

Xi Jiang

jason.jiang@cchmc.org

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MT XJ. Performed the experiments: MT MX. Analyzed the data: MT MX YC WB RH JM XL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MT RH JM. Wrote the paper: MT MX XJ.