About the Authors

Po-Ching Cheng

bonjovi@tmu.edu.tw (PCC); kmlee@ctust.edu.tw (KML)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Parasitology and Tropical Diseases, School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Ching-Nan Lin

Affiliations Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Mng University, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Tropical Medicine, National Yang-Mng University, Taipei, Taiwan

Shih-Yi Peng

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

Tsung-Fu Kang

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, National Yang-Mng University, Taipei, Taiwan

Kin-Mu Lee

bonjovi@tmu.edu.tw (PCC); kmlee@ctust.edu.tw (KML)

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology, Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PCC KML. Performed the experiments: PCC CNL SYP TFK. Analyzed the data: PCC CNL SYP TFK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SYP KML. Wrote the paper: PCC CNL.