About the Authors

Lili Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lili Jiang, Libing Song

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Libing Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Lili Jiang, Libing Song

Affiliation Department of Experimental Research, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Jueheng Wu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control (Sun Yat-sen University), Chinese Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Yi Yang

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control (Sun Yat-sen University), Chinese Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Xun Zhu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control (Sun Yat-sen University), Chinese Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Bo Hu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute, Center for Genetic Medicine and The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Shi-Yuan Cheng

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute, Center for Genetic Medicine and The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Mengfeng Li

limf@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control (Sun Yat-sen University), Chinese Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The co-author Libing Song is one of the editors of PLOS ONE. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE's policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML LJ LS. Performed the experiments: LJ LS JW. Analyzed the data: YY XZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW YY BH. Wrote the paper: LJ ML S-YC.