About the Authors

Hiu-Lam Ngai

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China

Sau-Wan Cheng

Roles Project administration

Affiliation LDS YYC R&D Centre for Chinese Medicine and State Key Laboratory of Research on Bioactivities and Clinical Applications of Medicinal Plants, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China

Tin-Sum Tse

Roles Investigation

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China

Hung Kay Lee

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China.

Pang-Chui Shaw

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

pcshaw@cuhk.edu.hk

Affiliations School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China, LDS YYC R&D Centre for Chinese Medicine and State Key Laboratory of Research on Bioactivities and Clinical Applications of Medicinal Plants, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China

Competing Interests

NO authors have competing interests