About the Authors

Tai-Chun Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Tai-Chun Huang, Kwok-Tung Lu

Affiliations Department of Biochemical Science and Biotechnology, National Chia-Yi University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Kwok-Tung Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Tai-Chun Huang, Kwok-Tung Lu

Affiliation Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yu-Yuan Peter Wo

Affiliation Department of Biochemical Science and Biotechnology, National Chia-Yi University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan

Yao-Ju Wu

Affiliation Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yi-Ling Yang

ylyang@mail.ncyu.edu.tw

Affiliation Department of Biochemical Science and Biotechnology, National Chia-Yi University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y-LY K-TL. Performed the experiments: T-CH. Analyzed the data: T-CH Y-JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: T-CH Y-JW. Wrote the paper: Y-LY K-TL Y-YPW.