About the Authors

Seon-Kyu Kim

Current address: Korean Bioinformation Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, Korea

Affiliations Department of Urology, Chungbuk National University College of Medicine, Cheongju, Korea, BK21 Chungbuk Biomedical Science Center, Chungbuk National University School of Medicine, Cheongju, Korea

Seok-Joong Yun

Affiliations Department of Urology, Chungbuk National University College of Medicine, Cheongju, Korea, BK21 Chungbuk Biomedical Science Center, Chungbuk National University School of Medicine, Cheongju, Korea

Jiyeon Kim

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical School, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Ok-Jun Lee

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Chungbuk National University College of Medicine, Cheongju, Korea

Suk-Chul Bae

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Chungbuk National University College of Medicine, Cheongju, Korea

Wun-Jae Kim

wjkim@chungbuk.ac.kr

Affiliations Department of Urology, Chungbuk National University College of Medicine, Cheongju, Korea, BK21 Chungbuk Biomedical Science Center, Chungbuk National University School of Medicine, Cheongju, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SKK WJK. Performed the experiments: SJY JK OJL. Analyzed the data: SKK SJY WJK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OJL SCB. Wrote the paper: SKK WJK.