About the Authors

Da-Wei Liu

Affiliation Institute of Medical Sciences, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

Chia-Hao Hsu

Current address: Division of Molecular and Genomic Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

Su-Mei Tsai

Affiliation Institute of Medical Sciences, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

Chung-Der Hsiao

Affiliations Department of Bioscience Technology, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, Center for Nanotechnology, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, Taiwan

Wen-Pin Wang

wpwang@mail.tcu.edu.tw

Affiliations Institute of Medical Sciences, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan, Department of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: D-WL C-HH W-PW. Performed the experiments: D-WL C-HH. Analyzed the data: D-WL W-PW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: C-DH. Wrote the paper: D-WL S-MT W-PW.