About the Authors

Yuki Kuroiwa

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuki Kuroiwa, Yoichi Takakusagi

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, Japan

Yoichi Takakusagi

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuki Kuroiwa, Yoichi Takakusagi

Affiliations Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, Japan, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Tomoe Kusayanagi

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, Japan

Kouji Kuramochi

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, Japan

Takahiko Imai

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, Japan

Tomoko Hirayama

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, Japan

Ichiaki Ito

Affiliation Department of Biological Science and Technology, Faculty of Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, Japan

Michiteru Yoshida

Affiliation Department of Biological Science and Technology, Faculty of Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, Japan

Kengo Sakaguchi

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, Japan

Fumio Sugawara

sugawara@rs.noda.tus.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YK YT. Performed the experiments: YK TK KK. Analyzed the data: YK YT TK KK TI TH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YK KK II MY KS FS. Wrote the paper: YK YT.