About the Authors

Jeong-Kook Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeong-Kook Kim, Joon-Young Kim

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, Graduate School, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Joon-Young Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeong-Kook Kim, Joon-Young Kim

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Research Institute of Aging and Metabolism, World Class University program, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea, GIST College, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

Han-Jong Kim

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Research Institute of Aging and Metabolism, World Class University program, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea, Research Institute of Clinical Medicine, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Jeollanam-do, Republic of Korea

Keun-Gyu Park

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Research Institute of Aging and Metabolism, World Class University program, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Robert A. Harris

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Won-Jea Cho

Affiliation College of Pharmacy and Research Institute of Drug Development, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

Jae-Tae Lee

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

In-Kyu Lee

leei@knu.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Research Institute of Aging and Metabolism, World Class University program, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JKK JYK HJK IKL. Performed the experiments: JKK WJC JTL. Analyzed the data: JKK WJC JTL JYK HJK IKL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HJK RAH KGP. Wrote the manuscript: JKK JYK RAH IKL.