About the Authors

Yukie Yoshida

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Pharmacy, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan

Tsuyoshi Miki

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Pharmacy, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan

Sayaka Ono

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Pharmacy, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan

Takeshi Haneda

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Pharmacy, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan

Masahiro Ito

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Pharmacy, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan

Nobuhiko Okada

okadan@pharm.kitasato-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Pharmacy, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YY TM SO TH MI NO. Performed the experiments: YY TM SO TH NO. Analyzed the data: YY MI NO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY TM SO TH MI NO. Wrote the paper: YY TM NO.