About the Authors

Junji Sagara

sagaraj@shinshu-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Laboratory Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan

Toshiaki Arata

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan

Shunichiro Taniguchi

Affiliation Department of Molecular Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS ST. Performed the experiments: JS TA. Analyzed the data: JS TA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JS TA ST. Wrote the paper: JS TA.