About the Authors

Pengjie Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Pengjie Zhang, Guangli Cao

Affiliation School of Biology and Basic Medical Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, People’s Republic of China

Guangli Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Pengjie Zhang, Guangli Cao

Affiliations School of Biology and Basic Medical Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, People’s Republic of China, National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, Soochow University, Suzhou, People’s Republic of China

Jie Sheng

Affiliation School of Biology and Basic Medical Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, People’s Republic of China

Renyu Xue

Affiliations School of Biology and Basic Medical Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, People’s Republic of China, National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, Soochow University, Suzhou, People’s Republic of China

Chengliang Gong

gongcl@suda.edu.cn

Affiliations School of Biology and Basic Medical Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, People’s Republic of China, National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, Soochow University, Suzhou, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PZ GC CG. Performed the experiments: PZ JS. Analyzed the data: PZ CG RX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CG RX GC. Wrote the paper: PZ CG.