About the Authors

Tomomi Sato

tosato@saitama-med.ac.jp (TS); asehara@frontier.kyoto-u.ac.jp (ASF)

Current address: Department of Anatomy, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Saitama Medical University, Moroyama-machi, Saitama, Japan

Affiliation Department of Growth Regulation, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Fuminori Sato

Affiliation Department of Growth Regulation, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Aosa Kamezaki

Affiliations Department of Growth Regulation, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan, Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology and Development, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Kazuya Sakaguchi

Affiliation Department of Growth Regulation, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Ryoma Tanigome

Affiliation Department of Growth Regulation, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Koichi Kawakami

Affiliation Division of Molecular and Developmental Biology, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima-shi, Shizuoka, Japan

Atsuko Sehara-Fujisawa

tosato@saitama-med.ac.jp (TS); asehara@frontier.kyoto-u.ac.jp (ASF)

Affiliation Department of Growth Regulation, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TS ASF. Performed the experiments: TS FS AK KS RT. Analyzed the data: TS AK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FS KK. Wrote the paper: TS ASF.