About the Authors

Chih-Yang Wang

Affiliations Department of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, 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

Ming-Derg Lai

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

Nam Nhut Phan

Affiliation Faculty of Applied Sciences, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Zhengda Sun

Affiliation Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Yen-Chang Lin

lycnthu@gmail.com

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Biotechnology, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

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Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CYW MDL YCL. Performed the experiments: CYW YCL ZS. Analyzed the data: CYW ZS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MDL NNP. Wrote the paper: CYW NNP MDL.