About the Authors

Tso-Ning Li

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Ko-Hsin Chin

Affiliation National Chung-Hsing University Biotechnology Center, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Kit-Man Fung

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Ming-Te Yang

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Andrew H.-J. Wang

Affiliation Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Shan-Ho Chou

shchou@nchu.edu.tw

Affiliations Institute of Biochemistry, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: S-HC AH-JW. Performed the experiments: T-NL K-MF. Analyzed the data: T-NL K-HC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AH-JW MT-Y. Wrote the paper: T-NL S-HC.