About the Authors

Chen-Li Liu

Affiliations School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China, Department of Biochemistry, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Li-Xia Xie

Affiliation School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China

Min Li

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jdhuang@hkucc.hku.hk (JH); limin@hkbu.edu.hk (ML)

Affiliation School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China

Siva Sundara Kumar Durairajan

Affiliation School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China

Shinya Goto

Affiliation Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan

Jian-Dong Huang

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jdhuang@hkucc.hku.hk (JH); limin@hkbu.edu.hk (ML)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JH CL ML. Performed the experiments: CL LX. Analyzed the data: JH CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ML SG. Wrote the paper: JH CL ML SD.