About the Authors

Masaki Ito

mito@jikei.ac.jp (MI); kshiba@jfcr.or.jp (KS)

Affiliations Department of Oncology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Protein Engineering, Cancer Institute, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

Kazumi Hayashi

Affiliation Department of Oncology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Eru Adachi

Affiliation Division of Protein Engineering, Cancer Institute, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

Tamiko Minamisawa

Affiliation Division of Protein Engineering, Cancer Institute, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

Sadamu Homma

Affiliation Department of Oncology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Shigeo Koido

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Kiyotaka Shiba

mito@jikei.ac.jp (MI); kshiba@jfcr.or.jp (KS)

Affiliation Division of Protein Engineering, Cancer Institute, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MI KS. Performed the experiments: MI KH EA TM SH SK. Analyzed the data: MI KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MI KH EA TM. Wrote the paper: MI KS.