About the Authors

Fang Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Fang Chen, Yilan Hu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, Department of Immunology, Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Allergy and Immunology, Wuhan University School of Medicine, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Yilan Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Fang Chen, Yilan Hu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, Department of Immunology, Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Allergy and Immunology, Wuhan University School of Medicine, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Dongqing Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, Department of Immunology, Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Allergy and Immunology, Wuhan University School of Medicine, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Haidan Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, Department of Immunology, Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Allergy and Immunology, Wuhan University School of Medicine, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Xiao-Lian Zhang

zhangxl65@whu.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, Department of Immunology, Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Allergy and Immunology, Wuhan University School of Medicine, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

Authors declare that there are patent applications for this work and aptamers sequences.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FC YH DL HC XLZ. Performed the experiments: FC YH DL HC. Analyzed the data: FC YH DL HC XLZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XLZ. Wrote the paper: XLZ.