About the Authors
- Koichiro Ichimura
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Affiliations Department of Cell Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Life Structure, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Ekaterina Bubenshchikova
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Rebecca Powell
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Yayoi Fukuyo
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Tomomi Nakamura
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Affiliations Department of Cell Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Biological Science and Technology, Graduate School of Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan
- Uyen Tran
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Lerner Research Institute/Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Shoji Oda
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Affiliation Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
- Minoru Tanaka
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Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Genetics for Reproduction, National Institute for Basic Biology, Aichi, Japan
- Oliver Wessely
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Lerner Research Institute/Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Hidetake Kurihara
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Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Life Structure, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Tatsuo Sakai
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Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Life Structure, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Tomoko Obara
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* E-mail: tomoko-obara@ouhsc.edu
Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KI TO. Performed the experiments: KI EB RP YF TN UT OW TO. Analyzed the data: KI TO OW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KI EB SO MT HK TS TO. Wrote the paper: KI OW TO.