About the Authors
- Masakiyo Sakaguchi
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kita-ku, Okayama, Japan
- Hitoshi Murata
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kita-ku, Okayama, Japan
- Ken-ichi Yamamoto
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kita-ku, Okayama, Japan
- Tomoyuki Ono
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kita-ku, Okayama, Japan
- Yoshihiko Sakaguchi
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Affiliation Interdisciplinary Research Organization, University of Miyazaki, Kiyotakecho, Miyazaki, Japan
- Akira Motoyama
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Affiliation Shiseido Research Center, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan
- Toshihiko Hibino
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Affiliation Shiseido Research Center, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan
- Ken Kataoka
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kita-ku, Okayama, Japan
- Nam-ho Huh
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* E-mail: namu@md.okayama-u.ac.jp
Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kita-ku, Okayama, Japan
Competing Interests
Akira Motoyama and Toshihiko Hibino are employees of the Shiseido Research Center. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MS HM KK N-hH. Performed the experiments: MS HM K-iY TO YS AM TH KK. Analyzed the data: MS HM KK N-hH. Wrote the paper: MS N-hH. Helped in the interpretation of data and suggested experiments: MS HM KK N-hH.