About the Authors
- Takahiro Suzuki
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Contributed equally to this work with: Takahiro Suzuki, Masami Shimoda
Affiliations National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
- Masami Shimoda
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Contributed equally to this work with: Takahiro Suzuki, Masami Shimoda
Affiliation National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
- Kumpei Ito
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Affiliations National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
- Shuji Hanai
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Affiliation National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
- Hidenobu Aizawa
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Affiliation National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
- Tomoki Kato
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Affiliation National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
- Kazunori Kawasaki
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Affiliation National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
- Terumi Yamaguchi
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Affiliation National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
- Hyung Don Ryoo
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America
- Naoko Goto-Inoue
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Affiliation Graduate School of Health Promotion Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
- Mitsutoshi Setou
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Shizuoka, Japan
- Shoji Tsuji
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Norio Ishida
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* E-mail: n.ishida@aist.go.jp
Affiliations National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Competing Interests
This work was funded in part by a grant from Nihon Advanced Agri Corporation. 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: TS M. Shimoda NI. Performed the experiments: TS TK. Analyzed the data: TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: M. Shimoda HDR ST NI. Wrote the paper: TS M. Shimoda. Guided the experiments: KI SH HA KK TY NG M. Setou ST. Provided substantial input into the writing of the manuscript: ST NI.