About the Authors

Qunying Hong

Affiliation Guthrie Research Institute, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Sayre, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Chun-I Sze

Affiliations Department of Pathology, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China

Sing-Ru Lin

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China

Ming-Hui Lee

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China

Ruei-Yu He

Affiliation Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China

Lori Schultz

Affiliation Guthrie Research Institute, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Sayre, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jean-Yun Chang

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China

Shean-Jen Chen

Affiliation Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China

Robert J. Boackle

Affiliation Section of Oral Biology, Department of Stomatology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Li-Jin Hsu

lijin.hsu@gmail.com (LJH); changns@mail.ncku.edu.tw (NSC)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China, Center for Gene Regulation and Signal Transduction Research, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China

Nan-Shan Chang

lijin.hsu@gmail.com (LJH); changns@mail.ncku.edu.tw (NSC)

Affiliations Guthrie Research Institute, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Sayre, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China, Center for Gene Regulation and Signal Transduction Research, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RJB NC. Performed the experiments: QH SRL MHL RYH LS NC. Analyzed the data: QH SRL MHL RYH LS NC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CIS JYC SJC LJH. Wrote the paper: NC.