About the Authors

Hajime Muraguchi

muraguchi@akita-pu.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Bioresource Sciences, Akita Prefectural University, Akita, 010-0195, Japan

Kiwamu Umezawa

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Tokyo, 183-8509, Japan

Mai Niikura

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Tokyo, 183-8509, Japan

Makoto Yoshida

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Tokyo, 183-8509, Japan

Toshinori Kozaki

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Tokyo, 183-8509, Japan

Kazuo Ishii

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Tokyo, 183-8509, Japan

Kiyota Sakai

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Meijo University, Nagoya, Aichi, 468-0073, Japan

Motoyuki Shimizu

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Meijo University, Nagoya, Aichi, 468-0073, Japan

Kiyoshi Nakahori

Affiliation Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan

Yuichi Sakamoto

Affiliation Iwate Biotechnology Research Center, Kitakami, Iwate, 024-0003, Japan

Cindy Choi

Affiliation US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, 2800 Mitchell Drive, Walnut Creek, CA, 94598, United States of America

Chew Yee Ngan

Affiliation US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, 2800 Mitchell Drive, Walnut Creek, CA, 94598, United States of America

Eika Lindquist

Affiliation US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, 2800 Mitchell Drive, Walnut Creek, CA, 94598, United States of America

Anna Lipzen

Affiliation US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, 2800 Mitchell Drive, Walnut Creek, CA, 94598, United States of America

Andrew Tritt

Affiliation US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, 2800 Mitchell Drive, Walnut Creek, CA, 94598, United States of America

Sajeet Haridas

Affiliation US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, 2800 Mitchell Drive, Walnut Creek, CA, 94598, United States of America

Kerrie Barry

Affiliation US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, 2800 Mitchell Drive, Walnut Creek, CA, 94598, United States of America

Igor V. Grigoriev

Affiliation US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, 2800 Mitchell Drive, Walnut Creek, CA, 94598, United States of America

Patricia J. Pukkila

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-3280, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PJP HM YS MY TK KB IVG. Performed the experiments: HM MN KS KN KU MY MS CC CYN EL. Analyzed the data: KU KI TK HM AL AT SH. Wrote the paper: HM PJP.