About the Authors

Seon-Yeong Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Seon-Yeong Lee, Seung Hoon Lee, Eun-Ji Yang

Affiliations The Rheumatism Research Center, Catholic Research Institute of Medical Science, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea, The Laboratory of Immune Network, CRCID, The Catholic University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Seung Hoon Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Seon-Yeong Lee, Seung Hoon Lee, Eun-Ji Yang

Affiliation The Rheumatism Research Center, Catholic Research Institute of Medical Science, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea

Eun-Ji Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Seon-Yeong Lee, Seung Hoon Lee, Eun-Ji Yang

Affiliation The Rheumatism Research Center, Catholic Research Institute of Medical Science, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea

Eun-Kyung Kim

Affiliation The Rheumatism Research Center, Catholic Research Institute of Medical Science, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea

Jae-Kyung Kim

Affiliation The Rheumatism Research Center, Catholic Research Institute of Medical Science, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea

Dong-Yun Shin

dyshin21@naver.com (DYS); iammila@catholic.ac.kr (MLC)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Gachon University of Medicine and Science, 191 Hambakmoe-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 406–799, Korea

Mi-La Cho

dyshin21@naver.com (DYS); iammila@catholic.ac.kr (MLC)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations The Rheumatism Research Center, Catholic Research Institute of Medical Science, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea, The Laboratory of Immune Network, CRCID, The Catholic University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SYL SHL DYS MLC. Performed the experiments: EJY EKK JKK. Analyzed the data: SYL SHL EJY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DYS MLC. Wrote the paper: SYL SHL EJY.