About the Authors

Tzu-Ching Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Tzu-Ching Chang, Yen-Chung Chen

Affiliation Institute of Cellular and System Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan

Yen-Chung Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Tzu-Ching Chang, Yen-Chung Chen

Affiliation Institute of Cellular and System Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan

Ming-Hua Yang

Affiliation Institute of Cellular and System Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan

Chien-Hung Chen

Affiliation Institute of Cellular and System Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan

En-Wei Hsing

Affiliation Institute of Cellular and System Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan

Bor-Sheng Ko

Affiliation National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Jun-Yang Liou

Affiliation Institute of Cellular and System Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan

Kenneth K. Wu

kkgo@nhri.org.tw

Affiliations Institute of Cellular and System Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TCC YCC JYL KKW. Performed the experiments: TCC YCC MHY CHC EWH BSK. Analyzed the data: TCC YCC BSK JYL KKW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MHY. Wrote the paper: TCC YCC JYL KKW. Financial and administrative support: KKW.