About the Authors

Myoung Nam Bae

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Su Hyun Kim

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea

Young Ok Kim

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Dong Chan Jin

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Ho Chul Song

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Euy Jin Choi

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Yong-Lim Kim

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

Yon-Su Kim

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Shin-Wook Kang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Nam-Ho Kim

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Kwangju, Korea

Chul Woo Yang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Yong Kyun Kim

drkimyk@catholic.ac.kr

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea, MRC for Cell Death Disease Research Center, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CWY YKK. Performed the experiments: MNB SHK YOK DCJ HCS EJC YLK SWK NHK CWY YKK. Analyzed the data: MNB YKK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SHK YOK DCJ HCS EJC YLK SWK NHK CWY YKK YSK. Wrote the paper: MNB CWY YKK.