About the Authors

Kuei-Min Chung

970304@nhri.org.tw (K-MC); xchen@nhri.org.tw (XC)

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Research, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan, Republic of China

Shu-Ching Hsu

Affiliation Vaccine Research and Development Center, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan, Republic of China

Yue-Ru Chu

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Research, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan, Republic of China

Mei-Yao Lin

Affiliation Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Weir-Tong Jiaang

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Research, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan, Republic of China

Ruey-Hwa Chen

Affiliation Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Xin Chen

970304@nhri.org.tw (K-MC); xchen@nhri.org.tw (XC)

Affiliations Institute of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Research, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KMC XC SCH. Performed the experiments: KMC YRC. Analyzed the data: KMC SCH YRC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MYL WTJ RHC. Wrote the paper: KMC XC.