About the Authors

Jun-ya Shoji

junya@fungalcell.org (JYS); akitamo@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (KK)

Current address: Plant Biology Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Kikuma

Current address: RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Wako, Japan

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Manabu Arioka

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Katsuhiko Kitamoto

junya@fungalcell.org (JYS); akitamo@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (KK)

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JYS TK KK. Performed the experiments: JYS TK. Analyzed the data: JYS TK. Wrote the paper: JYS TK MA KK.