About the Authors
- Hiroyuki Kubota
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* E-mail: hiroyuki.kubota@yher.be
Affiliations Yakult Honsha European Research Center for Microbiology ESV, Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium, Yakult Central Institute, Tokyo, Japan
- Takafumi Sakai
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Affiliation Yakult Central Institute, Tokyo, Japan
- Agata Gawad
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Affiliation Yakult Honsha European Research Center for Microbiology ESV, Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium
- Hiroshi Makino
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Affiliation Yakult Central Institute, Tokyo, Japan
- Takuya Akiyama
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Affiliations Yakult Honsha European Research Center for Microbiology ESV, Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium, Yakult Central Institute, Tokyo, Japan
- Eiji Ishikawa
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Affiliation Yakult Central Institute, Tokyo, Japan
- Kenji Oishi
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Affiliations Yakult Honsha European Research Center for Microbiology ESV, Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium, Yakult Central Institute, Tokyo, Japan
Competing Interests
HK, AG, TA and KO are paid employees of Yakult Honsha European Research Center for Microbiology ESV. TS, HM, and EI were the paid employees at the time of this study. This does not alter the authors' adherence to the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HK TS HM EI KO. Performed the experiments: HK TS AG HM TA. Analyzed the data: HK HM KO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HK TS AG HM TA KO. Wrote the paper: HK TS AG HM TA EI KO.