About the Authors

Ming-Te Yeh

Affiliations The Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Shainn-Wei Wang

Affiliations The Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Chun-Keung Yu

Affiliations The Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Kuei-Hsiang Lin

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Huan-Yao Lei

Affiliations The Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Ih-Jen Su

Affiliation National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Tainan, Taiwan

Jen-Ren Wang

jrwang@mail.ncku.edu.tw

Affiliations The Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: M-TY. Performed the experiments: M-TY. Analyzed the data: M-TY S-WW H-YL J-RW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: S-WW C-KY K-HL I-JS. Wrote the paper: M-TY J-RW.