About the Authors

Ru-Wei Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Ru-Wei Lin, Chia-Ning Yang, ShengYu Ku

Affiliations Bone and Joint Research Center, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Medical Device R & D Core Laboratory, National Cheng Kung University Medical College and Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

Chia-Ning Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ru-Wei Lin, Chia-Ning Yang, ShengYu Ku

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

ShengYu Ku

Contributed equally to this work with: Ru-Wei Lin, Chia-Ning Yang, ShengYu Ku

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Cheng-Jung Ho

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Shih-Bo Huang

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Min-Chi Yang

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Hsin-Wen Chang

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chun-Mao Lin

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, School of Medical, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Jaulang Hwang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, School of Medical, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yeh-Long Chen

Affiliation Department of Medical and Applied Chemistry, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Cherg-Chyi Tzeng

tzengch@kmu.edu.tw (CCT); chwang@kmu.edu.tw (CW)

Affiliation Department of Medical and Applied Chemistry, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chihuei Wang

tzengch@kmu.edu.tw (CCT); chwang@kmu.edu.tw (CW)

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CW CCT CNY RWL. Performed the experiments: RWL SK CJH HWC SBH MCY. Analyzed the data: CW SK CCT CNY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CML JH YLC. Wrote the paper: CW CNY RWL.