About the Authors

Lan Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Lan Ma, Yusuke Makino

Affiliations Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Oral Anatomy, Graduate School of Dental Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Graduate School of Dental Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Yusuke Makino

Contributed equally to this work with: Lan Ma, Yusuke Makino

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Oral Anatomy, Graduate School of Dental Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Haruyoshi Yamaza

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Graduate School of Dental Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Kentaro Akiyama

Affiliation Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Yoshihiro Hoshino

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Graduate School of Dental Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Guangtai Song

Affiliation Department of Pedodontics, School of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Toshio Kukita

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Oral Anatomy, Graduate School of Dental Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Kazuaki Nonaka

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Graduate School of Dental Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Songtao Shi

Affiliation Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Takayoshi Yamaza

yamazata@dent.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Oral Anatomy, Graduate School of Dental Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TY SS. Performed the experiments: TY LM YM HY KA YH. Analyzed the data: TY LM YM HY KA YH GS KN TK SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TY HY. Wrote the paper: TY.