About the Authors

Ling-Hua Chang

Affiliation Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Tainan, Taiwan

Huei-Sheng Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Huei-Sheng Huang, Po-Ting Wu, I-Ming Jou

Affiliations Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, Tainan, Taiwan

Po-Ting Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Huei-Sheng Huang, Po-Ting Wu, I-Ming Jou

Affiliation Orthopedics Department of National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

I-Ming Jou

Contributed equally to this work with: Huei-Sheng Huang, Po-Ting Wu, I-Ming Jou

Affiliation Orthopedics Department of National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

Min-Hsiung Pan

Affiliation Department of Seafood Science, National Kaohsiung Marine University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Wen-Chang Chang

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Dennis Ding Hwa Wang

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry, UC Irvine School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Ju-Ming Wang

yumingw@mail.ncku.edu.tw

Affiliations Institute of Bioinformatics and Biosignal Transduction, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Infectious Disease and Signaling Research Center, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: JMW LHC HSH PTW IMJ. Wrote the paper: JMW LHC. Direction and designed research: JMW. Performed research: JMW LHC PTW. Designed research: LHC. Assisted in writing paper: HSH. Assisting in editing the paper: IMJ MHP WCC DDHW. Provided chemicals: MHP.