About the Authors
- Qunying Hong
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Affiliation Guthrie Research Institute, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Sayre, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Chun-I Sze
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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
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Affiliation Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China
- Ming-Hui Lee
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Affiliation Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China
- Ruei-Yu He
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Affiliation Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China
- Lori Schultz
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Affiliation Guthrie Research Institute, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Sayre, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Jean-Yun Chang
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Affiliation Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China
- Shean-Jen Chen
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Affiliation Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China
- Robert J. Boackle
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Affiliation Section of Oral Biology, Department of Stomatology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
- Li-Jin Hsu
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* E-mail: 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
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* E-mail: 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.