About the Authors

Liqin Cao

Affiliations Technology and Development Team for Mammalian Cellular Dynamics, RIKEN BioResource Center, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Japan Biological Informatics Consortium, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Satoru Kobayakawa

Affiliation Technology and Development Team for Mammalian Cellular Dynamics, RIKEN BioResource Center, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Atsushi Yoshiki

Affiliation Experimental Animal Division, RIKEN BioResource Center, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Kuniya Abe

abe@rtc.riken.jp

Affiliation Technology and Development Team for Mammalian Cellular Dynamics, RIKEN BioResource Center, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: L.C. and K.A. filed a patent application covering the microstage device (No. 2008-100505). 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: LC AY KA. Performed the experiments: LC. Analyzed the data: LC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LC AY KA. Wrote the paper: LC KA. Constructed the mRFP-MBD-nls transgene: SK.