About the Authors

Chaw-Sen Hew

Affiliation School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

Boon-Yin Khoo

Affiliation Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine (INFORMM), Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

Lay-Harn Gam

layharn@usm.my

Affiliation School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Carrying out most of the experimental works and preparing of the manuscript; conducting most of the experimental work; analysis of most of the data; analysis tools; preparing the first draft of manuscript: C-SH. Supervising the cell culture works and assisting in the preparation of the manuscript; analysis of cell culture data; reagents for cell culture work; checking the cell culture part of the manuscript: B-YK. Overseeing and design of the whole project and editing of the manuscript; supervising the proteomics works; analysis of protein based data; other general reagents in the whole project; editing the whole manuscript: L-HG.