About the Authors

Wen-Wei Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Wen-Wei Lin, I-Ju Chen

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Sciences, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

I-Ju Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Wen-Wei Lin, I-Ju Chen

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Ta-Chun Cheng

Affiliation Center for Biomarkers and Biotech Drugs, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yi-Ching Tung

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Environmental Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Pei-Yu Chu

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Health Sciences, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chih-Hung Chuang

Affiliation Center for Biomarkers and Biotech Drugs, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yuan-Chin Hsieh

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chien-Chiao Huang

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Biomedical Science and Environmental Biology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yeng-Tseng Wang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chien-Han Kao

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Steve R. Roffler

tlcheng@kmu.edu.tw (TLC); sroff@ibms.sinica.edu.tw (SRR)

Current address: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, No. 128, Section 2, Academia Road, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Tian-Lu Cheng

tlcheng@kmu.edu.tw (TLC); sroff@ibms.sinica.edu.tw (SRR)

Current address: Department of Biomedical and Environmental Biology, Kaohsiung Medical University, 100 Shih-Chuan 1st Road, Kaohsiung, 80708, Taiwan

Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Sciences, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Center for Biomarkers and Biotech Drugs, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Biomedical Science and Environmental Biology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: W-WL I-JC T-LC. Performed the experiments: W-WL I-JC. Analyzed the data: W-WL I-JC SRR T-LC. Wrote the paper: W-WL. Assisted in eliminating problems during experiments; provided their suggestions and correction for this manuscript: T-CC Y-CT P-YC C-HC C-CH C-HK. Provided technical assistance for structural prediction of linear epitopes from mouse and rabbit IgG primary antibodies: Y-TW Y-CH.