About the Authors

Aya Umeno

Affiliation Health Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan

Mototada Shichiri

yoshida-ya@aist.go.jp (YY); mototada-shichiri@aist.go.jp (MS)

Affiliation Health Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ikeda, Osaka, Japan

Noriko Ishida

Affiliation Health Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ikeda, Osaka, Japan

Yoshiko Hashimoto

Affiliation Health Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan

Kaori Abe

Affiliation Health Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan

Masatoshi Kataoka

Affiliation Health Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan

Kohzoh Yoshino

Affiliation Health Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ikeda, Osaka, Japan

Yoshihisa Hagihara

Affiliation Health Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ikeda, Osaka, Japan

Nanako Aki

Affiliation Clinical Research Center for Diabetes, Tokushima University Hospital, Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan

Makoto Funaki

Affiliation Clinical Research Center for Diabetes, Tokushima University Hospital, Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan

Yasuhiko Asada

Affiliation Depertment of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Kita-gun, Kagawa, Japan

Yasukazu Yoshida

yoshida-ya@aist.go.jp (YY); mototada-shichiri@aist.go.jp (MS)

Affiliation Health Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AU MK Y. Hagihara MF YA YY. Performed the experiments: AU MS NI Y. Hashimoto KA NA. Analyzed the data: AU MS KY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AU MS NI Y. Hashimoto YY. Wrote the paper: AU YY.