About the Authors
- Min-A Kim
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Contributed equally to this work with: Min-A Kim, Ye-Ri Kim
Affiliations Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea, School of Life Sciences, KNU Creative BioResearch Group (BK21 plus project), Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
- Ye-Ri Kim
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Contributed equally to this work with: Min-A Kim, Ye-Ri Kim
Affiliations Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea, School of Life Sciences, KNU Creative BioResearch Group (BK21 plus project), Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
- Borum Sagong
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Affiliations Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea, School of Life Sciences, KNU Creative BioResearch Group (BK21 plus project), Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
- Hyun-Ju Cho
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Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
- Jae Woong Bae
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Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
- Jeongho Kim
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Affiliations Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea, School of Life Sciences, KNU Creative BioResearch Group (BK21 plus project), Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
- Jinwook Lee
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Affiliations Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea, School of Life Sciences, KNU Creative BioResearch Group (BK21 plus project), Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
- Hong-Joon Park
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Affiliation Soree Ear Clinics, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Jae Young Choi
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Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Kyu-Yup Lee
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* E-mail: kylee@knu.ac.kr (K-YL); kimuk@knu.ac.kr (U-KK)
Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
- Un-Kyung Kim
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* E-mail: kylee@knu.ac.kr (K-YL); kimuk@knu.ac.kr (U-KK)
Affiliations Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea, School of Life Sciences, KNU Creative BioResearch Group (BK21 plus project), Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KYL UKK. Performed the experiments: MAK YRK BS HJC JWB JK JL. Analyzed the data: MAK YRK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HJP JYC KYL UKK. Wrote the paper: MAK.