About the Authors

Yu-Hsiang Hsu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Hsiang Hsu, Hsing-Hui Li

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Hsing-Hui Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Hsiang Hsu, Hsing-Hui Li

Affiliation Department of Planning and Research, National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium, Pingtung, Taiwan

Junne-Ming Sung

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Wei-Ting Chen

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Ya-Chin Hou

Affiliation Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Ming-Shi Chang

mschang@mail.ncku.edu.tw

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Critically read and edited the final manuscript: YHH JMS MSC. Conceived and designed the experiments: YHH MSC. Performed the experiments: YHH HHL WTC YCH. Analyzed the data: YHH HHL WTC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YHH HHL JMS. Wrote the paper: YHH HHL.