About the Authors

Keimei Oh

jmwang@akita-pu.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Bioresource Sciences, Akita Prefectural University, Shimoshinjo Nakano, Akita, Japan

Tadashi Matsumoto

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Bioresource Sciences, Akita Prefectural University, Shimoshinjo Nakano, Akita, Japan

Ayumi Yamagami

Affiliation Antibiotics laboratory, RIKEN, 2–1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, Japan

Atushi Ogawa

Affiliation Department of Bioproduction, Faculty of Bioresource Sciences, Akita Prefectural University, Shimoshinjo Nakano, Akita, Japan

Kazuhiro Yamada

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Bioresource Sciences, Akita Prefectural University, Shimoshinjo Nakano, Akita, Japan

Ryuichiro Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Bioproduction, Faculty of Bioresource Sciences, Akita Prefectural University, Shimoshinjo Nakano, Akita, Japan

Takayuki Sawada

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Center, Faculty of Bioresource Sciences, Akita Prefectural University, Shimoshinjo Nakano, Akita, Japan

Shozo Fujioka

Affiliations Antibiotics laboratory, RIKEN, 2–1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, Japan, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Wako, Saitama, Japan

Yuko Yoshizawa

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Bioresource Sciences, Akita Prefectural University, Shimoshinjo Nakano, Akita, Japan

Takeshi Nakano

Affiliations Antibiotics laboratory, RIKEN, 2–1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, Japan, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Wako, Saitama, Japan, CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KO TN RS. Performed the experiments: KO SF TM AY AO. Analyzed the data: KO TN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SF KY TS YY. Wrote the paper: KO TN.