About the Authors

Taku Tamura

taku@gipc.akita-u.ac.jp

Current address: Department of Life Science, Faculty of Engineering and Resource, Akita University, Akita, Japan

Affiliations Department of Cell Science, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo, Japan

Seisuke Arai

Affiliation Department of Cell Science, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan

Hisao Nagaya

Current address: Institute for Advanced Medical Sciences, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan

Affiliations Department of Cell Science, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo, Japan

Jun Mizuguchi

Affiliation The Chemo-Sero-Therapeutic Research Institute (Kaketsuken), Kumamoto, Japan

Ikuo Wada

Affiliations Department of Cell Science, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TT IW. Performed the experiments: TT SA IW. Analyzed the data: TT JM IW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TT SA HN JM IW. Wrote the paper: TT IW.