About the Authors

Der-Yuan Chen

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Ph.D. Program in Translational Medicine and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Yi-Ming Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Ming Chen, Han-Ju Chien, Chi-Chen Lin

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Ph.D. Program in Translational Medicine and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Han-Ju Chien

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Ming Chen, Han-Ju Chien, Chi-Chen Lin

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Chi-Chen Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Ming Chen, Han-Ju Chien, Chi-Chen Lin

Affiliation Ph.D. Program in Translational Medicine and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Chia-Wei Hsieh

Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Ph.D. Program in Translational Medicine and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Hsin-Hua Chen

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Ph.D. Program in Translational Medicine and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Wei-Ting Hung

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Chien-Chen Lai

lailai@dragon.nchu.edu.tw

Affiliations Ph.D. Program in Translational Medicine and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DYC C. Lai. Data curation: HJC. Formal analysis: YMC HJC C. Lin CWH HHC WTH. Funding acquisition: DYC C. Lia. Investigation: DYC YMC HJC C. Lin CWH HHC WTH C. Lai. Methodology: YMC HJC C. Lin C. Lai. Project administration: DYC C. Lai. Resources: DYC HJC C. Lin C. Lai. Supervision: DYC C. Lai. Validation: DYC HJC C. Lai. Visualization: DYC YMC HJC C. Lai. Writing – original draft: DYC. Writing – review & editing: DYC YMC HJC C. Lin CWH HHC WTH C. Lai.