About the Authors

Seng Jin Choi

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Republic of Korea

Min-Hye Kim

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine and Ewha Institute of Convergence Medicine, Ewha Womans Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Jinseong Jeon

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Republic of Korea

Oh Youn Kim

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Republic of Korea

Youngwoo Choi

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Republic of Korea

Jihye Seo

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Republic of Korea

Sung-Wook Hong

Affiliations Academy of Immunology and Microbiology (AIM), Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Pohang, Republic of Korea, Department of Integrative Biosciences and Biotechnology, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Republic of Korea

Won-Hee Lee

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Republic of Korea

Seong Gyu Jeon

juinea@ewha.ac.kr (YK); gene49@hanmail.net (SJ)

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Republic of Korea

Yong Song Gho

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Republic of Korea

Young-Koo Jee

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Republic of Korea

Yoon-Keun Kim

juinea@ewha.ac.kr (YK); gene49@hanmail.net (SJ)

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine and Ewha Institute of Convergence Medicine, Ewha Womans Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SC SJ YG YJ YK. Performed the experiments: SC JJ OK YC JS WL SJ SH. Analyzed the data: SC MK SJ YK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SC MK SJ YK. Wrote the paper: SC MK OK SJ YK. Obtained funding: YK.