About the Authors

Jihye Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Jihye Lee, Seri Lim

Affiliation National Research Laboratory of Hepatitis C Virus, Ilsong Institute of Life Science, Hallym University, Anyang, Korea

Seri Lim

Contributed equally to this work with: Jihye Lee, Seri Lim

Affiliation National Research Laboratory of Hepatitis C Virus, Ilsong Institute of Life Science, Hallym University, Anyang, Korea

Sang-Min Kang

Affiliation National Research Laboratory of Hepatitis C Virus, Ilsong Institute of Life Science, Hallym University, Anyang, Korea

Saehong Min

Affiliation National Research Laboratory of Hepatitis C Virus, Ilsong Institute of Life Science, Hallym University, Anyang, Korea

Kidong Son

Affiliation National Research Laboratory of Hepatitis C Virus, Ilsong Institute of Life Science, Hallym University, Anyang, Korea

Han Sol Lee

Affiliation National Research Laboratory of Hepatitis C Virus, Ilsong Institute of Life Science, Hallym University, Anyang, Korea

Eun Mee Park

Affiliation National Research Laboratory of Hepatitis C Virus, Ilsong Institute of Life Science, Hallym University, Anyang, Korea

Huong T. T. Ngo

Affiliation National Research Laboratory of Hepatitis C Virus, Ilsong Institute of Life Science, Hallym University, Anyang, Korea

Huong T. L. Tran

Affiliation National Research Laboratory of Hepatitis C Virus, Ilsong Institute of Life Science, Hallym University, Anyang, Korea

Yun-Sook Lim

Affiliation National Research Laboratory of Hepatitis C Virus, Ilsong Institute of Life Science, Hallym University, Anyang, Korea

Soon B. Hwang

sbhwang@hallym.ac.kr

Affiliation National Research Laboratory of Hepatitis C Virus, Ilsong Institute of Life Science, Hallym University, Anyang, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL SH. Performed the experiments: JL SL SK SM KS HL EP HN HT. Analyzed the data: JL YL SH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL SH. Wrote the paper: JL SH.