About the Authors

Chew Hooi Wong

Contributed equally to this work with: Chew Hooi Wong, Kartini Bte Iskandar

Affiliations Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Kartini Bte Iskandar

Contributed equally to this work with: Chew Hooi Wong, Kartini Bte Iskandar

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Sanjiv Kumar Yadav

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Jayshree L. Hirpara

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Thomas Loh

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, National University Hospital System, Singapore, Singapore

Shazib Pervaiz

phssp@nus.edu.sg

Affiliations Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore-MIT Alliance, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP. Performed the experiments: CHW KBI SKY JLH. Analyzed the data: SP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SKY TL. Wrote the paper: CHW SP.