About the Authors

Li Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Sun, Yaling Xing

Affiliation Division of Infection and Immunity, Department of Electromagnetic and Laser Biology, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, China

Yaling Xing

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Sun, Yaling Xing

Affiliation Division of Infection and Immunity, Department of Electromagnetic and Laser Biology, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, China

Xiaojuan Chen

Affiliation Division of Infection and Immunity, Department of Electromagnetic and Laser Biology, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, China

Yang Zheng

Affiliation Division of Infection and Immunity, Department of Electromagnetic and Laser Biology, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, China

Yudong Yang

Affiliation Division of Infection and Immunity, Department of Electromagnetic and Laser Biology, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, China

Daniel B. Nichols

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Mark A. Clementz

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Bridget S. Banach

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Kui Li

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Susan C. Baker

sbaker1@lumc.edu (SCB); chenzb@bmi.ac.cn (ZC)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Zhongbin Chen

sbaker1@lumc.edu (SCB); chenzb@bmi.ac.cn (ZC)

Affiliation Division of Infection and Immunity, Department of Electromagnetic and Laser Biology, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZC SCB KL. Performed the experiments: LS YX XC YZ YY DBN MAC BSB. Analyzed the data: LS YX ZC SCB. Wrote the paper: SCB ZC.