About the Authors

Ju-Geng Lai

Contributed equally to this work with: Ju-Geng Lai, Su-Mei Tsai, Hsiao-Chen Tu

Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Genomic Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Miaoli, Taiwan, ROC

Su-Mei Tsai

Contributed equally to this work with: Ju-Geng Lai, Su-Mei Tsai, Hsiao-Chen Tu

Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Genomic Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Miaoli, Taiwan, ROC

Hsiao-Chen Tu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ju-Geng Lai, Su-Mei Tsai, Hsiao-Chen Tu

Affiliations Institute of Molecular and Genomic Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Miaoli, Taiwan, ROC, Institute of Biotechnology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC

Wen-Chuan Chen

Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Genomic Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Miaoli, Taiwan, ROC

Fong-Ji Kou

Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Genomic Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Miaoli, Taiwan, ROC

Jeng-Wei Lu

Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Genomic Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Miaoli, Taiwan, ROC

Horng-Dar Wang

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC

Chou-Long Huang

chyuh@nhri.org.tw (CHY); Chou-Long.Huang@UTSouthwestern.edu (CLH)

Affiliation Departments of Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Chiou-Hwa Yuh

chyuh@nhri.org.tw (CHY); Chou-Long.Huang@UTSouthwestern.edu (CLH)

Affiliations Institute of Molecular and Genomic Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Miaoli, Taiwan, ROC, College of Life Science and Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC, Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CHY SMT HCT JGL WCC FJK JWL. Performed the experiments: SMT HCT JGL WCC FJK JWL. Analyzed the data: SMT HCT JGL WCC FJK CHY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CLH. Wrote the paper: CHY. Contributed to the intellectual discussion: CLH HDW. Helped the project all the way through: CLH.