About the Authors

Ming-Chong Ng

Affiliation Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yi-Ling Yang

ylyang@mail.ncyu.edu.tw (YLY); ktlu@ntnu.edu.tw (KTL)

Affiliation Department of Biochemical Science and Technology, National Chia-Yi University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan

Kwok-Tung Lu

ylyang@mail.ncyu.edu.tw (YLY); ktlu@ntnu.edu.tw (KTL)

Affiliation Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YLY KTL. Performed the experiments: MCN. Analyzed the data: MCN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MCN. Wrote the paper: MCN YLY KTL.