About the Authors

Weixiang Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Weixiang Guo, Keita Tsujimura

Current address: State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Waisman Center, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Keita Tsujimura

Contributed equally to this work with: Weixiang Guo, Keita Tsujimura

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Biology and Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Maky Otsuka I.

Affiliation Life Science Tokyo Advanced Research center (L-StaR), Hoshi University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science, Tokyo, Japan

Koichiro Irie

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Biology and Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Katsuhide Igarashi

xzhao69@wisc.edu (XZ); kin1@scb.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp (KN); k-igarashi@hoshi.ac.jp (KI)

Affiliation Life Science Tokyo Advanced Research center (L-StaR), Hoshi University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science, Tokyo, Japan

Kinichi Nakashima

xzhao69@wisc.edu (XZ); kin1@scb.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp (KN); k-igarashi@hoshi.ac.jp (KI)

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Biology and Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Xinyu Zhao

xzhao69@wisc.edu (XZ); kin1@scb.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp (KN); k-igarashi@hoshi.ac.jp (KI)

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Waisman Center, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XZ KN. Performed the experiments: WG KT K. Irie. Analyzed the data: WG KT MOI K. Igarashi KN XZ. Wrote the paper: KN XZ K. Igarashi. Final approval of the version to be published: KN XZ K. Igarashi.