About the Authors

Hiroki Kato

Contributed equally to this work with: Hiroki Kato, Qiping Lu

hmg1@tokyo-med.ac.jp

Current address: Department of Neurophysiology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Affiliation Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Qiping Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hiroki Kato, Qiping Lu

Affiliation Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Doron Rapaport

Affiliation Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Vera Kozjak-Pavlovic

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Biocentre, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HK QL DR VKP. Performed the experiments: HK QL VKP. Analyzed the data: HK QL DR VKP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HK QL VKP. Wrote the paper: HK DR.