About the Authors

Shinsaku Tokuda

tokku@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Toyohiro Hirai

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Mikio Furuse

Affiliations Division of Cell Structure, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan, Department of Physiological Sciences, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Okazaki 444–8585, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ST. Formal analysis: ST MF. Funding acquisition: ST MF. Investigation: ST. Resources: ST MF. Supervision: ST TH MF. Validation: ST MF. Writing – original draft: ST. Writing – review & editing: ST TH MF.