About the Authors

Hui-Min Qin

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Takuya Miyakawa

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Min Ze Jia

Affiliations Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Akira Nakamura

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Jun Ohtsuka

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

You-Lin Xue

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Kawashima

Affiliation Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Takuya Kasahara

Affiliation Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Makoto Hibi

Affiliation Laboratory of Industrial Microbiology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Jun Ogawa

Affiliation Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Masaru Tanokura

amtanok@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: J. Ogawa MT. Performed the experiments: HMQ T. Kawashima T. Kasahara MH. Analyzed the data: HMQ TM MZJ AN J. Ohtsuka YLX MH. Wrote the paper: HMQ TM MT.