About the Authors

Fumihito Noguchi

Contributed equally to this work with: Fumihito Noguchi, Takeshi Nakajima

noguchi@r-derma.med.osaka-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Regenerative Dermatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Takeshi Nakajima

Contributed equally to this work with: Fumihito Noguchi, Takeshi Nakajima

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Osaka General Medical Center, Osaka, Japan

Shigeki Inui

Affiliation Department of Regenerative Dermatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Janardan K. Reddy

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Satoshi Itami

Affiliation Department of Regenerative Dermatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FN TN S. Inui S. Itami. Performed the experiments: FN. Analyzed the data: FN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FN. Wrote the paper: FN. Contributed to creation of MED1-KO mice: JKR.