About the Authors

Dong-Won Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Dong-Won Kim, Seoung-Ae Lee

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Liver Research Institute and Cancer Research Institute, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Seoung-Ae Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Dong-Won Kim, Seoung-Ae Lee

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Liver Research Institute and Cancer Research Institute, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Eung-Soo Hwang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Liver Research Institute and Cancer Research Institute, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Yoon-Hoh Kook

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Liver Research Institute and Cancer Research Institute, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Bum-Joon Kim

kbumjoon@snu.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Liver Research Institute and Cancer Research Institute, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ESH YHK BJK. Performed the experiments: DWK SAL. Analyzed the data: DWK BJK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DWK SAL. Wrote the paper: DWK BJK. Obtained permission for use of plasma serum: DWK.