About the Authors

Chun Hei Antonio Cheung

Affiliation National Institute of Cancer Research, National Health Research Institutes, Tainan, Taiwan R.O.C.

Wen-Hsing Lin

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Research, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan R.O.C.

John Tsu-An Hsu

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Research, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan R.O.C.

Tzyh-Chyuan Hour

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan R.O.C.

Teng-Kuang Yeh

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Research, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan R.O.C.

Shengkai Ko

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Research, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan R.O.C.

Tzu-Wen Lien

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Research, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan R.O.C.

Mohane Selvaraj Coumar

Affiliation Centre for Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Kalapet, Puducherry, India

Jin-Fen Liu

Affiliation National Institute of Cancer Research, National Health Research Institutes, Tainan, Taiwan R.O.C.

Wen-Yang Lai

Affiliation National Institute of Cancer Research, National Health Research Institutes, Tainan, Taiwan R.O.C.

Hui-Yi Shiao

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Research, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan R.O.C.

Tian-Ren Lee

Affiliation National Institute of Cancer Research, National Health Research Institutes, Tainan, Taiwan R.O.C.

Hsing-Pang Hsieh

jychang@nhri.org.tw (JYC); hphsieh@nhri.org.tw (HPH)

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Research, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan R.O.C.

Jang-Yang Chang

jychang@nhri.org.tw (JYC); hphsieh@nhri.org.tw (HPH)

Affiliations National Institute of Cancer Research, National Health Research Institutes, Tainan, Taiwan R.O.C., Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan R.O.C.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CHAC JTAH TKY HPH JYC. Performed the experiments: CHAC WHL TCH TKY SK TWL MSC JFL WYL HYS TRL. Analyzed the data: CHAC HPH JYC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CHAC JTAH HPH JYC. Wrote the paper: CHAC HPH JYC.