About the Authors

Che-Yu Chu

Contributed equally to this work with: Che-Yu Chu, Chi-Fang Chen

Affiliation Department of Bioscience Technology, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, Taiwan

Chi-Fang Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Che-Yu Chu, Chi-Fang Chen

Affiliation Department of Bioscience Technology, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, Taiwan

R. Samuel Rajendran

Affiliation Department of Bioscience Technology, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, Taiwan

Chia-Ning Shen

Affiliation Genome Research Center, Academia Sinica, NanKang, Taiwan

Te-Hao Chen

Affiliation National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium, Pingtung, Taiwan

Chueh-Chuan Yen

Affiliations Division of Hematology & Oncology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Chih-Kuang Chuang

Affiliation Division of Genetics and Metabolism, Department of Medical Research, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Dar-Shong Lin

cdhsiao@cycu.edu.tw (CDH); dslin@ms1.mmh.org.tw (DSL)

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Mackay Medicine, Nursing and Management College, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

Chung-Der Hsiao

cdhsiao@cycu.edu.tw (CDH); dslin@ms1.mmh.org.tw (DSL)

Affiliations Department of Bioscience Technology, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, Center for Nanotechnology, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DSL CDH. Performed the experiments: CYC CFC RSR CKC. Analyzed the data: CKC CNS THC CCY DSL CDH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CNS. Wrote the paper: CYC CFC DSL CDH.