About the Authors

Xiao-Qiang Han

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Qiang Han, Gar-Lee Yue

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Institute of Chinese Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China, Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Gar-Lee Yue

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Qiang Han, Gar-Lee Yue

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Institute of Chinese Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China

Rui-Qi Yue

Affiliation School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China

Cai-Xia Dong

Affiliation School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China

Chung-Lap Chan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Institute of Chinese Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China

Chun-Hay Ko

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Institute of Chinese Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China

Wing-Shing Cheung

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Institute of Chinese Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China

Ke-Wang Luo

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Institute of Chinese Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China

Hui Dai

simonhan@hkbu.edu.hk (Q-BH); daihui@bjmu.edu.cn (HD)

Affiliation Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

Chun-Kwok Wong

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Institute of Chinese Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China

Ping-Chung Leung

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Institute of Chinese Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China

Quan-Bin Han

simonhan@hkbu.edu.hk (Q-BH); daihui@bjmu.edu.cn (HD)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Institute of Chinese Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China, School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: X-QH Q-BH. Performed the experiments: G-LY R-QY C-XD C-LC C-HK W-SC K-WL HD. Analyzed the data: C-HK W-SC K-WL HD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: C-KW P-CL. Wrote the paper: Q-BH.