About the Authors

Guoqiang Xu

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

Wei Zou

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

Xiulai Chen

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

Nan Xu

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

Liming Liu

mingll@jiangnan.edu.cn (LML); jchen@jiangnan.edu.cn (JC)

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

Jian Chen

mingll@jiangnan.edu.cn (LML); jchen@jiangnan.edu.cn (JC)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China, The Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China, The Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and 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: GQX WZ XLC NX LML JC. Performed the experiments: GQX XLC. Analyzed the data: GQX WZ NX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GQX XLC. Wrote the paper: GQX WZ.