About the Authors

Shunsuke Furihata

Contributed equally to this work with: Shunsuke Furihata, Makiko Hirata

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Sciences, Saga University, Saga, Japan

Makiko Hirata

Contributed equally to this work with: Shunsuke Furihata, Makiko Hirata

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Sciences, Saga University, Saga, Japan

Hitoshi Matsumoto

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Sciences, Saga University, Saga, Japan

Yoichi Hayakawa

hayakayo@cc.saga-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Sciences, Saga University, Saga, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YH SF. Performed the experiments: SF MH HM YH. Analyzed the data: SF MH HM YH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SF MH HM. Wrote the paper: YH.