About the Authors

Wei Cui

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Cui, Zaijun Zhang

Affiliation Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, Institute of Modern Medicine, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Zaijun Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Cui, Zaijun Zhang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, China, Institute of New Drug Research, Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Pharmacodynamic, Constituents of Traditional Chinese Medicine & New Drug Research, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guang Zhou, Guangdong, China

Wenming Li

Affiliation Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, Institute of Modern Medicine, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Shinghung Mak

Affiliation Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, Institute of Modern Medicine, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Shengquan Hu

Affiliation Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, Institute of Modern Medicine, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Huan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, Institute of Modern Medicine, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Shuai Yuan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, China

Jianhui Rong

Affiliation School of Chinese Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Tony Chunglit Choi

Affiliation Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, Institute of Modern Medicine, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Simon M. Y. Lee

bcyfhan@polyu.edu.hk (YH); SimonLee@umac.mo (SMYL)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, China

Yifan Han

bcyfhan@polyu.edu.hk (YH); SimonLee@umac.mo (SMYL)

Affiliation Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, Institute of Modern Medicine, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WC ZZ WL SMYL YH. Performed the experiments: WC ZZ SM SH HZ SY. Analyzed the data: WC ZZ WL SMYL YH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: N/A. Wrote the paper: WC ZZ WL JR TCC SMYL YH.