About the Authors

Takeo Yoshimura

yoshimura@rs.tus.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Science, Tokyo University of Science, 264 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba 305–8506, Japan

Takamasa Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Science, Tokyo University of Science, 264 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba 305–8506, Japan

Shigeru Mineki

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Science, Tokyo University of Science, 264 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba 305–8506, Japan

Shokichi Ohuchi

Affiliation Graduate School of Life Science and System Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 680–4 Kawazu, Iizuka, Fukuoka 820–8502, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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