About the Authors

Yoshie Tange

Affiliations Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Atsushi Kurabayashi

Affiliation Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan

Bunshiro Goto

Affiliation Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan

Kwang-Lae Hoe

Affiliation Chungnam National University, Graduate School of New Drug Discovery and Development, Yusong-gu, Daejeon, Korea

Dong-Uk Kim

Affiliation Aging Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Yusong-gu, Daejeon, Korea

Han-Oh Park

Affiliation Bioneer Corporation, Daejeon, Korea

Jacqueline Hayles

Affiliation Cancer Research UK, The London Research Institute, London, United Kingdom

Yuji Chikashige

Affiliation National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Kobe, Japan

Chihiro Tsutumi

Affiliation National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Kobe, Japan

Yasushi Hiraoka

Affiliations Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Kobe, Japan

Fumiaki Yamao

Affiliation National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan

Paul Nurse

Affiliations Cancer Research UK, The London Research Institute, London, United Kingdom, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Osami Niwa

niwa@kazusa.or.jp

Affiliations Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YT ON. Performed the experiments: YT AK BG CT ON. Analyzed the data: YT YC YH ON. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: K-LH D-UK H-OP JH YC CT YH FY. Wrote the paper: PN ON.