About the Authors

Xuefeng Jing

Contributed equally to this work with: Xuefeng Jing, Hideto Miwa

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine, Institute of Advanced Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

Hideto Miwa

Contributed equally to this work with: Xuefeng Jing, Hideto Miwa

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

Takahiro Sawada

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine, Institute of Advanced Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

Ichiro Nakanishi

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

Tomoyoshi Kondo

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

Masayasu Miyajima

Affiliation Laboratory Animal Center, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

Kazushige Sakaguchi

ksaka@wakayama-med.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine, Institute of Advanced Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XJ HM KS. Performed the experiments: XJ HM TS IN. Analyzed the data: XJ HM TS KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TK MM. Wrote the paper: XJ HM KS.