About the Authors

Ying-Ting Lin

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yu-Hsuan Wu

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chin-Kai Tseng

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chun-Kuang Lin

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Wei-Chun Chen

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yao-Chin Hsu

cmh7100@mail.chimei.org.tw (YCH); jclee@kmu.edu.tw (JCL)

Affiliation Department of Chinese Medicine, ChiMei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan

Jin-Ching Lee

cmh7100@mail.chimei.org.tw (YCH); jclee@kmu.edu.tw (JCL)

Affiliations Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YCH JCL. Performed the experiments: YTL YHW CKT CKL. Analyzed the data: YCH JCL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WCC. Wrote the paper: JCL.