About the Authors

Ho-Wah Au

Contributed equally to this work with: Ho-Wah Au, Man-Wah Tsang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

Man-Wah Tsang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ho-Wah Au, Man-Wah Tsang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

Yu Wai Chen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

Pui-Kin So

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

Kwok-Yin Wong

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

kwok-yin.wong@polyu.edu.hk (KYW); thomas.yun-chung.leung@polyu.edu.hk (YCL)

Affiliation Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

Yun-Chung Leung

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

kwok-yin.wong@polyu.edu.hk (KYW); thomas.yun-chung.leung@polyu.edu.hk (YCL)

Affiliations Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China, Lo Ka Chung Research Centre for Natural Anti-Cancer Drug Development, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.