About the Authors

Joonghoon Park

Current address: LG Life Sciences R&D Park, Daejeon, 305380, Republic of Korea

Affiliation Center for Regenerative Biology and Department of Animal Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, 06269, United States of America

Jong Woo Park

Affiliation Research Center for Epigenome Regulation, School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 440746, Republic of Korea

Hawmok Oh

Affiliation Research Center for Epigenome Regulation, School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 440746, Republic of Korea

Fernanda S. Maria

Affiliations Center for Regenerative Biology and Department of Animal Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, 06269, United States of America, Department of Animal Reproduction, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, 05508, Brazil

Jaeku Kang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Konyang University, Daejeon, 302718, Republic of Korea

Xiuchun Tian

xiuchun.tian@uconn.edu

Affiliation Center for Regenerative Biology and Department of Animal Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, 06269, United States of America

Competing Interests

JP is employed by LG Life Sciences and received support in the form of salary. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JP XT. Performed the experiments: JWP HO FSM. Analyzed the data: JP JK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JWP JK. Wrote the paper: JP XT.