About the Authors
- Yumie Morimoto-Kobayashi
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* E-mail: Yumie_Kobayashi@kirin.co.jp
Affiliation Research Laboratories for Health Science & Food Technologies, KIRIN Company, Ltd., Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Kazuaki Ohara
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Affiliation Research Laboratories for Health Science & Food Technologies, KIRIN Company, Ltd., Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Chika Takahashi
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Affiliation Research Laboratories for Health Science & Food Technologies, KIRIN Company, Ltd., Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Sayoko Kitao
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Affiliation Research Laboratories for Health Science & Food Technologies, KIRIN Company, Ltd., Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Guanying Wang
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Affiliation Research Laboratories for Health Science & Food Technologies, KIRIN Company, Ltd., Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Yoshimasa Taniguchi
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Current address: Central Laboratories for Key Technologies, KIRIN Company, Ltd., Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Affiliation Research Laboratories for Health Science & Food Technologies, KIRIN Company, Ltd., Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Mikio Katayama
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Affiliation Research Laboratories for Health Science & Food Technologies, KIRIN Company, Ltd., Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Katsuya Nagai
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Affiliation ANBAS Corporation, Osaka, Japan
Competing Interests
YMK, KO, CT, SK, GW, YT & MK are employees of Kirin Company, Ltd. KN is the President of ANBAS Corporation. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YMK KO MK KN. Performed the experiments: YMK CT SK GW YT KN. Analyzed the data: YMK CT SK GW YT KN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YT. Wrote the paper: YMK KO MK KN.