About the Authors

Yi-Wen Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Wen Lin, Hsiang-Yin Lin

Affiliations National Institutes of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate Program of Biotechnology in Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Hsiang-Yin Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Wen Lin, Hsiang-Yin Lin

Affiliation National Institutes of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, Republic of China

Yueh-Liang Tsou

Affiliations National Institutes of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate School of Life Science, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Ebenezer Chitra

Current address: Division of Human Biology, School of Medical Sciences, International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Affiliation National Institutes of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, Republic of China

Kuang-Nan Hsiao

Affiliation National Institutes of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, Republic of China

Hsiao-Yun Shao

Affiliation National Institutes of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, Republic of China

Chia-Chyi Liu

Affiliation National Institutes of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, Republic of China

Charles Sia

Affiliations National Institutes of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Immunology, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Pele Chong

pelechong@nhri.org.tw (PC); choeyenh@nhri.org.tw (Y-HC)

Affiliations National Institutes of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Immunology, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Yen-Hung Chow

pelechong@nhri.org.tw (PC); choeyenh@nhri.org.tw (Y-HC)

Affiliation National Institutes of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y-HC. Performed the experiments: Y-WL H-YL Y-LT K-NH H-YS. Analyzed the data: PC CS EC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: C-CL. Wrote the paper: Y-HC. Edition of manuscript: PC EC CS.