About the Authors

Pin-Shern Chen

pschen@mail.chna.edu.tw

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan

Yuan-Wei Shih

Affiliations Department of Biological Science and Technology, Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology, Tainan, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Science, Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology, Tainan, Taiwan

Hsiang-Ching Huang

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan

Hsing-Wen Cheng

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: P-SC. Performed the experiments: Y-WS H-CH H-WC. Analyzed the data: P-SC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Y-WS. Wrote the paper: P-SC.