About the Authors
- Kentaro Masujin
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Affiliation Prion Disease Research Center, National Institute of Animal Health, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
- Yuko Kaku-Ushiki
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Affiliation Nippi Research Institute of Biomatrix, Toride, Ibaraki, Japan
- Ritsuko Miwa
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Affiliation Prion Disease Research Center, National Institute of Animal Health, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
- Hiroyuki Okada
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Affiliation Prion Disease Research Center, National Institute of Animal Health, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
- Yoshihisa Shimizu
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Affiliation Prion Disease Research Center, National Institute of Animal Health, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
- Kazuo Kasai
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Affiliation Prion Disease Research Center, National Institute of Animal Health, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
- Yuichi Matsuura
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Affiliation Prion Disease Research Center, National Institute of Animal Health, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
- Takashi Yokoyama
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* E-mail: tyoko@affrc.go.jp
Affiliation Prion Disease Research Center, National Institute of Animal Health, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Competing Interests
Ms. Yuko Ushiki-Kaku belongs to company institute, Nippi Research Institute of BioMatrix. She works on basic prion research in this institute. And this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KM TY. Performed the experiments: KM RM HO. Analyzed the data: KM YKU HO YS KK YM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KM RM YKU HO. Wrote the paper: KM TY.