About the Authors

Tsuyoshi S. Nakamura

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Cell Biology Center, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanagawa, Japan

Yasuyuki Suda

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences and Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Live Cell Super-Resolution Imaging Research Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, Saitama, Japan

Kenji Muneshige

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yuji Fujieda

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yuuya Okumura

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Ichiro Inoue

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Takayuki Tanaka

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Tetsuo Takahashi

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Laboratory of Glycobiology and Glycotechnology, Department of Applied Biochemistry, School of Engineering, Tokai University, Kanagawa, Japan

Hideki Nakanishi

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China

Xiao-Dong Gao

Roles Resources

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China

Yasushi Okada

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliations Laboratory for Cell Dynamics Observation, Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, RIKEN, Osaka, Japan, Department of Physics and Universal Biology Institute, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Physics, Universal Biology Institute, and the International Research Center for Neurointelligence (WPI-IRCN), The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Aaron M. Neiman

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Hiroyuki Tachikawa

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

atachi@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Collaborative Research Institute for Innovative Microbiology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.