About the Authors

Tomoaki Bessho

Contributed equally to this work with: Tomoaki Bessho, Tetsuya Okada

Affiliation Laboratory of Biological Macromolecules, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

Tetsuya Okada

Contributed equally to this work with: Tomoaki Bessho, Tetsuya Okada

Affiliation Laboratory of Biological Macromolecules, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

Chihiro Kimura

Affiliation Laboratory of Biological Macromolecules, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

Takahiro Shinohara

Affiliation Laboratory of Biological Macromolecules, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

Ai Tomiyama

Affiliation Laboratory of Biological Macromolecules, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

Akira Imamura

Affiliation Laboratory of Biological Macromolecules, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

Mitsuru Kuwamura

Affiliation Laboratory of Veterinary Pathology, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Izumisano, Osaka, Japan

Kazuhiko Nishimura

Affiliation Laboratory of Toxicology, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Izumisano, Osaka, Japan

Ko Fujimori

Affiliation Laboratory of Biodefense and Regulation, Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan

Satoshi Shuto

Affiliation Laboratory of Organic Chemistry for Drug Development, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Osamu Ishibashi

Affiliation Laboratory of Biological Macromolecules, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

Bruno Kilunga Kubata

Affiliation AU/NEPAD Agency Regional Office for Eastern and Central Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

Takashi Inui

inuit@bioinfo.osakafu-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Laboratory of Biological Macromolecules, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TI BKK. Performed the experiments: TB TO CK TS AT AI MK KF OI. Analyzed the data: TB TO CK TS MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KN SS. Wrote the paper: TB TO OI TI.