About the Authors

Pei-Ching Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Pei-Ching Chang, Tao-Yeuan Wang

pcchang@ym.edu.tw (PCC); hkung@nhri.org.tw (HJK)

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

Tao-Yeuan Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Pei-Ching Chang, Tao-Yeuan Wang

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Mackay Medical College and Mackay Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan, R.O.C, Mackay Junior College of Medicine, Nursing, and Management, New Taipei City, Taiwan, R.O.C

Yi-Ting Chang

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

Cheng-Ying Chu

Affiliation Institute for Translational Medicine, College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

Chin-Ling Lee

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Mackay Medical College and Mackay Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan, R.O.C, Mackay Junior College of Medicine, Nursing, and Management, New Taipei City, Taiwan, R.O.C

Hung-Wei Hsu

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

Tyng-An Zhou

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

Zhaoju Wu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, UC Davis Cancer Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Randie H. Kim

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Sonal J. Desai

Affiliation UC Davis Cancer Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Shangqin Liu

Affiliation Department of Hematlogy, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Hsing-Jien Kung

pcchang@ym.edu.tw (PCC); hkung@nhri.org.tw (HJK)

Affiliations Institute for Translational Medicine, College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Division of Molecular and Genomic Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan, R.O.C

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PCC TYW SL HJK. Performed the experiments: PCC YTC HWH TAZ TYW CLL CYC SL. Analyzed the data: YTC HWH TAZ ZW RHK SJD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PCC HJK. Wrote the paper: PCC HJK.