About the Authors

Akinori Matsushika

a-matsushika@aist.go.jp

Affiliation Biomass Refinery Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Hiroshima, Japan

Atsushi Nagashima

Affiliation Human Metabolome Technologies, Inc., Yamagata, Japan

Tetsuya Goshima

Affiliation Biomass Refinery Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Hiroshima, Japan

Tamotsu Hoshino

Affiliations Biomass Refinery Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Hiroshima, Japan, Graduated School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have collaborated with Human Metabolome Technologies, Inc. in this work. As per journal requirements, the authors declare that they have no financial competing interests and have no other competing interests relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products. 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: AM AN TH. Performed the experiments: AM TG. Analyzed the data: AM AN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM AN. Wrote the paper: AM.