About the Authors

Mayuko Koreishi

Affiliation The Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Sidney Yu

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences and Epithelial Cell Biology Research Center, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

Mayumi Oda

Affiliation The Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Yasuko Honjo

Affiliation The Research Core for Interdisciplinary Sciences (RCIS), Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Ayano Satoh

ayano113@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp

Affiliation The Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: M.K., Y.H., S.Y., A.S. Performed the experiments: M.K., M.O., A.S. Analyzed the data: M.K., Y.H., S.Y., A.S. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: M.K., Y.H., S.Y., A.S. Wrote the paper: S.Y., A.S.