About the Authors

Seon-Hee Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Seon-Hee Kim, Young-An Bae

Affiliation Department of Molecular Parasitology, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine and Center for Molecular Medicine, Samsung Biomedical Research Center, Suwon, Korea

Young-An Bae

Contributed equally to this work with: Seon-Hee Kim, Young-An Bae

Affiliations Department of Molecular Parasitology, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine and Center for Molecular Medicine, Samsung Biomedical Research Center, Suwon, Korea, Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Gachon University, Inchon, Korea

Hyun-Jong Yang

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Ewha Womans University, School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Joo-Ho Shin

Affiliation Division of Pharmacology, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine and Center for Molecular Medicine, Samsung Biomedical Research Center, Suwon, Korea

Sylvia Paz Diaz-Camacho

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias Químico Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Sinaloa, México

Yukifumi Nawa

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

Insug Kang

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea

Yoon Kong

kongy@skku.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Parasitology, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine and Center for Molecular Medicine, Samsung Biomedical Research Center, Suwon, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YK YAB. Performed the experiments: SHK YAB JHS HJY. Analyzed the data: YAB SHK JHS YN IK YK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YAB HJY SPD YN YK. Wrote the paper: YK YAB SHK IK YN.