About the Authors

Se-Jung Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Se-Jung Lee, Eo-Jin Lee

Affiliations Department of Biotechnology, Chungju National University, Chungju, Chungbuk, South Korea, Department of Food Science and Technology, Chung-Ang University, Ansung, Korea, Department of Urology, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk, South Korea

Eo-Jin Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Se-Jung Lee, Eo-Jin Lee

Affiliations Department of Biotechnology, Chungju National University, Chungju, Chungbuk, South Korea, Department of Urology, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk, South Korea

Seon-Kyu Kim

Affiliation Korean Bioinformation Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, Korea

Pildu Jeong

Affiliation Department of Urology, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk, South Korea

Young-Hwa Cho

Affiliation Juseong Gene Therapy R&D Center, Juseong University, Chungbuk, Korea

Seok Joong Yun

Affiliation Department of Urology, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk, South Korea

Sangtae Kim

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Chungju National University, Chungju, Chungbuk, South Korea

Gi-Young Kim

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunobiology, Department of Marine Life Sciences, Jeju National University, Jeju, Republic of Korea

Yung Hyun Choi

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, College of Oriental Medicine, Dongeui University, Busan, South Korea

Eun-Jong Cha

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea

Wun-Jae Kim

wjkim@chungbuk.ac.kr (WJK); sumoon66@dreamwiz.com (SKM)

Affiliation Department of Urology, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk, South Korea

Sung-Kwon Moon

wjkim@chungbuk.ac.kr (WJK); sumoon66@dreamwiz.com (SKM)

Affiliations Department of Biotechnology, Chungju National University, Chungju, Chungbuk, South Korea, Department of Urology, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk, South Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SKM WJK. Performed the experiments: SJL EJL SKK PJ. Analyzed the data: SJY SK Y-H. Cho. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GYK Y-H. Choi EJC. Wrote the paper: SKM SKK WJK.