About the Authors

Chih-Sin Hsu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chih-Sin Hsu, Chien-Yi Tung

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chien-Yi Tung

Contributed equally to this work with: Chih-Sin Hsu, Chien-Yi Tung

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chih-Yung Yang

Affiliations Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Education and Research, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chi-Hung Lin

linch@ym.edu.tw

Affiliations Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, VGH Yang-Ming Genome Research Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Education and Research, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CSH CYT. Performed the experiments: CSH. Analyzed the data: CSH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CYT CYY CHL. Wrote the paper: CSH CYT.