About the Authors

Sunny Sun-Kin Chan

Contributed equally to this work with: Sunny Sun-Kin Chan, Hui-Jing Li

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Medicine and Research Center for Clinical Medicine, National Cheng Kung University and Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

Hui-Jing Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Sunny Sun-Kin Chan, Hui-Jing Li

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Medicine and Research Center for Clinical Medicine, National Cheng Kung University and Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

Ying-Chang Hsueh

Affiliation Institute of Basic Medicine, National Cheng Kung University and Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

Desy S. Lee

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Medicine and Research Center for Clinical Medicine, National Cheng Kung University and Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

Jyh-Hong Chen

Affiliation Department of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University and Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

Shiaw-Min Hwang

Affiliation Bioresource Collection and Research Center, Food Industry Research and Development Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Chen-Yun Chen

Affiliations Molecular Medicine Program, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Emily Shih

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Patrick C. H. Hsieh

phsieh@mail.ncku.edu.tw

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine and Research Center for Clinical Medicine, National Cheng Kung University and Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Institute of Basic Medicine, National Cheng Kung University and Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Molecular Medicine Program, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SSKC HJL YCH JHC SMH PCHH. Performed the experiments: SSKC HJL YCH DSL CYC ES. Analyzed the data: SSKC HJL YCH DSL PCHH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SMH. Wrote the paper: SSKC HJL PCHH.