About the Authors

Chung-Pei Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Chung-Pei Lee, Po-Ting Liu

Affiliations Graduate Institute and Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Center of General Education, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan

Po-Ting Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chung-Pei Lee, Po-Ting Liu

Affiliation Graduate Institute and Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsiu-Ni Kung

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Mei-Tzu Su

Affiliation Graduate Institute and Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Huey-Huey Chua

Affiliation Graduate Institute and Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yu-Hsin Chang

Affiliation Graduate Institute and Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chou-Wei Chang

Affiliation Graduate Institute and Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Ching-Hwa Tsai

Affiliation Graduate Institute and Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Fu-Tong Liu

Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

Mei-Ru Chen

mrc@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliation Graduate Institute and Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CPL PTL MTS MRC. Performed the experiments: CPL PTL MTS YHC. Analyzed the data: CPL PTL CWC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HNK HHC CWC CHT FTL. Wrote the paper: CPL PTL MRC. Suggestions for experiment design: CWC HHC.