About the Authors
- Lihong Guo
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Affiliation School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Wei Hu
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Affiliations School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, College of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan, China
- Xuesong He
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Affiliation School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Renate Lux
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Affiliation School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Jeff McLean
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Wenyuan Shi
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* E-mail: wenyuan@ucla.edu
Affiliation School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
WS wishes to disclose his potential conflict of interests due to his involvement with a Los Angeles based biotech company, C3 Jian Inc.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LG RL JM WS. Performed the experiments: LG. Analyzed the data: LG WH XH RL WS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LG WH. Wrote the paper: LG XH RL.