About the Authors

Gyungah Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Gyungah Kim, Yoon Shin Park

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Ewha Tonsil-derived mesenchymal Stem cells Research Center (ETSRC), College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Yoon Shin Park

Contributed equally to this work with: Gyungah Kim, Yoon Shin Park

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Major in Microbiology, School of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea

Yunki Lee

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Molecular Science and Technology, Ajou University, Suwon, Republic of Korea

Yoon Mi Jin

Roles Project administration, Software, Visualization

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Ewha Tonsil-derived mesenchymal Stem cells Research Center (ETSRC), College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Da Hyeon Choi

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Major in Microbiology, School of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea

Kyung-Ha Ryu

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Ewha Tonsil-derived mesenchymal Stem cells Research Center (ETSRC), College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Yoon Jeong Park

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Dental Regenerative Biotechnology, Dental Research Institute, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Central Research Institute, Nano Intelligent Biomedical Engineering Corporation (NIBEC), Seoul, Republic of Korea

Ki Dong Park

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Molecular Science and Technology, Ajou University, Suwon, Republic of Korea

Inho Jo

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

inhojo@ewha.ac.kr

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Ewha Tonsil-derived mesenchymal Stem cells Research Center (ETSRC), College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

We have the following interests: Dr. Yoon Jeong Park is employed by Nano Intelligent Biomedical Engineering Corporation (NIBEC). There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.