About the Authors

Wan-Shan Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

‡ First author.

Affiliations Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Wayne W. Yeh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation

Affiliations Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Mel Campbell

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UC Davis Cancer Center, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

Lung Chang

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, MacKay Children’s Hospital and MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, MacKay Medical College, New Taipei, Taiwan

Pei-Ching Chang

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

pcchang@ym.edu.tw

Affiliations Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Cancer Progression Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.