About the Authors
- Akira Yoshimi
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Affiliation New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Motoaki Sano
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Affiliation Genome Biotechnology Laboratory, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Ishikawa, Japan
- Azusa Inaba
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Affiliation Department of Microbial Biotechnology, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Yuko Kokubun
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Affiliation Department of Microbial Biotechnology, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Tomonori Fujioka
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Affiliation Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
- Osamu Mizutani
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Affiliation National Research Institute of Brewing, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
- Daisuke Hagiwara
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Affiliation Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
- Takashi Fujikawa
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Affiliation National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan
- Marie Nishimura
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Affiliation National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan
- Shigekazu Yano
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Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Japan
- Shin Kasahara
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Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Miyagi University, Sendai, Japan
- Kiminori Shimizu
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Affiliation Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
- Masashi Yamaguchi
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Affiliation Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
- Kazuyoshi Kawakami
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Affiliation National Department of Medical Microbiology, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Keietsu Abe
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* E-mail: kabe@niche.tohoku.ac.jp
Affiliations New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Department of Microbial Biotechnology, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Competing Interests
T. Fujioka is employed by the Kumiai Chemical Co., Ltd. However, despite this affiliation, the authors declare that none of them have any competing interests relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development, or marketed products. In addition, this affiliation does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Advisor for analysis of the data: T. Fujioka OM DH T. Fujikawa MN KK. Conceived and designed the experiments: AY KA. Performed the experiments: AY MS AI YK SK KS MY. Analyzed the data: AY AI SK KA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SY. Wrote the paper: AY KA.