About the Authors

Hsin-Hui Huang

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Laboratory Science in Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yi-Tsung Lin

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Wei-Ching Chen

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Laboratory Science in Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yi-Wei Huang

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Laboratory Science in Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Shiang-Jiuun Chen

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and TechComm-5, College of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Tsuey-Ching Yang

tcyang@ym.edu.tw

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Laboratory Science in Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YTL TCY. Performed the experiments: HHH WCC. Analyzed the data: YWH TCY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YTL SJC. Wrote the paper: TCY.