About the Authors

Makoto Sudo

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Yoshiki Yamaguchi

Affiliation Structural Glycobiology Team, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan

Peter J. Späth

Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Kana Matsumoto-Morita

Affiliation Structural Glycobiology Team, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan

Benjamin K. Ong

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Nortina Shahrizaila

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Nobuhiro Yuki

mdcyuki@nus.edu.sg

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NY. Performed the experiments: MS YY KMM. Analyzed the data: MS YY KMM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS YY KMM NS. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: NY MS YY PJS BKO NS.