About the Authors

Soung-Hoon Lee

Affiliation Translational Research Center for Protein Function Control, Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

Juyong Yoon

Affiliation Translational Research Center for Protein Function Control, Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

Seung Ho Shin

Affiliation Translational Research Center for Protein Function Control, Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

Muhamad Zahoor

Affiliation Translational Research Center for Protein Function Control, Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

Hyoung Jun Kim

Affiliation Skin Research Team, Skin Research Institute, Amore Pacific Corporation Research and Development Center, Kyounggi-do, South Korea

Phil June Park

Affiliation Skin Research Team, Skin Research Institute, Amore Pacific Corporation Research and Development Center, Kyounggi-do, South Korea

Won-Seok Park

Affiliation Skin Research Team, Skin Research Institute, Amore Pacific Corporation Research and Development Center, Kyounggi-do, South Korea

Do Sik Min

Affiliations Translational Research Center for Protein Function Control, Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Molecular Biology, College of Natural Science, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea

Hyun-Yi Kim

Affiliation Translational Research Center for Protein Function Control, Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

Kang-Yell Choi

kychoi@yonsei.ac.kr

Affiliation Translational Research Center for Protein Function Control, Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

Competing Interests

HJK, PJP and WSP are employed by Amore Pacific Corporation R&D Center. Translational Research Center for Protein Function Control and Amore Pacific Co. are named in a patent application for the use of VPA in promoting hair re-growth (patent pending). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials..

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SHL KYC JY SHS MZ HJK PJP WSP HYK. Performed the experiments: SHL KYC JY SHS MZ HJK PJP WSP HYK. Wrote the paper: SHL DSM KYC.