About the Authors

Suzhen Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Suzhen Jiang, Ziwei Yang

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, Beijing, China, Department of Infectious Disease, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Department of Infectious Disease, Linyi People's Hospital, Linyi, Shandong, China

Ziwei Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Suzhen Jiang, Ziwei Yang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, Beijing, China

Weijie Li

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, Beijing, China

Xiaojun Li

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, Beijing, China

Yongfeng Wang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, Beijing, China

Jiangbo Zhang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, Beijing, China

Chunhui Xu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, Beijing, China

Pei-Jer Chen

Affiliation Hepatitis Research Center, National Taiwan University and Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Jinlin Hou

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Malcolm A. McCrae

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Xiangmei Chen

xm_chen6176@bjmu.edu.cn (XMC); Lu.fengmin @hsc.pku.edu.cn (FML)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, Beijing, China, Infectious Disease Center, Peking University, Beijing, China

Hui Zhuang

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, Beijing, China, Infectious Disease Center, Peking University, Beijing, China

Fengmin Lu

xm_chen6176@bjmu.edu.cn (XMC); Lu.fengmin @hsc.pku.edu.cn (FML)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, Beijing, China, Infectious Disease Center, Peking University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FML XMC. Performed the experiments: SZJ ZWY WJL XJL JBZ YFW. Analyzed the data: FML SZJ ZWY CHX MAM JLH XMC HZ PJC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XJL. Wrote the paper: SZJ ZWY MAM FML. Critical review and insightful comments: PJC.