About the Authors

Mayumi Tomita

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto-city, Kyoto, Japan

Misako Asada

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto-city, Kyoto, Japan

Nariaki Asada

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto-city, Kyoto, Japan

Jin Nakamura

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto-city, Kyoto, Japan

Akiko Oguchi

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto-city, Kyoto, Japan

Atsuko Y. Higashi

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Kansai Medical University, Moriguchi-city, Osaka, Japan

Shuichiro Endo

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto-city, Kyoto, Japan

Elizabeth Robertson

Affiliation Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Takeshi Kimura

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto-city, Kyoto, Japan

Toru Kita

Affiliation Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Kobe-city, Hyogo, Japan

Aris N. Economides

Affiliation Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Tarrytown, New York, United States of America

Jordan Kreidberg

Affiliation Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusettes, United States of America

Motoko Yanagita

motoy@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto-city, Kyoto, Japan

Competing Interests

Aris N. Economides is employed by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MY. Performed the experiments: MT MA NA JN AO AYH SE. Analyzed the data: TK TK JK MY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ER ANE. Wrote the paper: MT MY.