About the Authors

Ju-Yi Hsieh

Contributed equally to this work with: Ju-Yi Hsieh, Jyung-Hurng Liu

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Jyung-Hurng Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ju-Yi Hsieh, Jyung-Hurng Liu

Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Pai-Chun Yang

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Chi-Li Lin

Affiliation Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Guang-Yaw Liu

hchung@dragon.nchu.edu.tw (HCH); liugy@csmu.edu.tw (GYL)

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology & Immunology, Chung Shan Medical University, and Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Hui-Chih Hung

hchung@dragon.nchu.edu.tw (HCH); liugy@csmu.edu.tw (GYL)

Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Agricultural Biotechnology Center (ABC), National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the experiments: JYH PCY. Analyzed the data: JHL HCH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CLL GYL HCH. Wrote the paper: HCH.