About the Authors

Xiao-Wei Yu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China, Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China

Nian-Jiang Tan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China

Rong Xiao

Affiliation Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Yan Xu

biosean@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China, Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XWY YX RX. Performed the experiments: XWY NJT. Analyzed the data: XWY YX RX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XWY NJT. Wrote the paper: XWY.