About the Authors

Chia-Lin Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Chia-Lin Lee, Ying-Ting Lin

Affiliations School of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Natural Medicinal Products Research Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Ying-Ting Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Chia-Lin Lee, Ying-Ting Lin

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Fang-Rong Chang

yachwu@mail.cmu.edu.tw (YCW); aaronfrc@kmu.edu.tw (FRC)

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Natural Products, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Cancer Center, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Guan-Yu Chen

Affiliation Natural Medicinal Products Research Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Anders Backlund

Affiliation Division of Pharmacognosy, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, BMC, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Juan-Chang Yang

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Natural Products, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Shu-Li Chen

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Natural Products, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yang-Chang Wu

yachwu@mail.cmu.edu.tw (YCW); aaronfrc@kmu.edu.tw (FRC)

Affiliations School of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Natural Medicinal Products Research Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Natural Products, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Center for Molecular Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CLL FRC YCW. Performed the experiments: CLL GYC AB JCY SLC. Analyzed the data: CLL YTL GYC AB JCY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CLL FRC GYC AB JCY YCW. Wrote the paper: CLL YTL.