About the Authors

Rouh-Mei Hu

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan

Sih-Ting Liao

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Laboratory Science in Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chiang-Ching Huang

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Yi-Wei Huang

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Microbiology and Public Health, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Tsuey-Ching Yang

tcyang@ym.edu.tw

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Laboratory Science in Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TC-Y. Performed the experiments: S-TL C-CH Y-WH. Analyzed the data: R-MH T-CY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: R-MH. Wrote the paper: T-CY.