About the Authors

Chao-Kuen Lai

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Toxicology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Vikas Saxena

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Chung-Hsin Tseng

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

King-Song Jeng

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Michinori Kohara

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan

Michael M. C. Lai

michlai@gate.sinica.edu.tw

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CKL MML. Performed the experiments: CKL VS. Analyzed the data: CKL VS CHT MML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KSJ MK MML. Wrote the paper: CKL MML.