About the Authors

Hung D Nguyen

Affiliation Frontier Science Research Center, University of Miyazaki, Kiyotake, Miyazaki, Japan

Maki Yoshihama

Affiliation Frontier Science Research Center, University of Miyazaki, Kiyotake, Miyazaki, Japan

Naoya Kenmochi

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kenmochi@med.miyazaki-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Frontier Science Research Center, University of Miyazaki, Kiyotake, Miyazaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

HDN, MY, and NK conceived and designed the experiments. HDN performed the experiments. HDN, MY, and NK analyzed the data. HDN contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. HDN and NK wrote the paper.