About the Authors

Wan-Shan Yang

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Hung-Wei Hsu

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Mel Campbell

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

Chia-Yang Cheng

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Pei-Ching Chang

pcchang@ym.edu.tw

Affiliations Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Center for Infectious Disease and Cancer Research, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PCC. Performed the experiments: WSY HWH. Analyzed the data: CYC HWH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PCC. Wrote the paper: PCC MC.