About the Authors

Takayuki Shimizu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanagawa 226–8501, Japan

Zhuo Cheng

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellar Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States of America

Katsumi Matsuura

Affiliation Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo 192–0397, Japan

Shinji Masuda

Affiliations Center for Biological Resources and Informatics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanagawa 226–8501, Japan, Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152–8551, Japan

Carl E. Bauer

bauer@indiana.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellar Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TS ZC KM SM CB. Performed the experiments: TS ZC. Analyzed the data: TS ZC KM SM CB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SM CB. Wrote the paper: TS ZC KM SM CB.