About the Authors

Sayuri Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Hirotaka Fukasawa

Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Taro Misaki

Current address: Division of Nephrology, Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan

Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Akashi Togawa

Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Naro Ohashi

Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Kyoko Kitagawa

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Yojiro Kotake

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Ning Liu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Hiroyuki Niida

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Keiko Nakayama

Affiliation Division of Developmental Genetics, Center for Translational and Advanced Animal Research on Human Diseases, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Keiichi I. Nakayama

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Tatsuo Yamamoto

Affiliations First Department of Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan, Second Department of Medicine, Numazu City Hospital, Numazu, Japan

Masatoshi Kitagawa

kitamasa@hama-med.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS TY KK AT. Performed the experiments: SS HF TM. Analyzed the data: NO KK NL HN TY MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KN KIN YK. Wrote the paper: SS TY MK.