About the Authors

Tsz Yan Wong

Affiliation Food and Nutritional Sciences Programme, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong S.A.R., People's Republic of China

Shu-mei Lin

Affiliation Dept. of Food Science, National Chiayi University, Chiayi City, Taiwan, (R.O.C.)

Lai K. Leung

laikleung@cuhk.edu.hk

Affiliations Food and Nutritional Sciences Programme, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong S.A.R., People's Republic of China, Biochemistry Programme, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong S.A.R., People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LKL SML TYW. Performed the experiments: TYW SML. Analyzed the data: LKL TYW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LKL. Wrote the paper: LKL TYW SML.