About the Authors

Masahiro Nakajima

Contributed equally to this work with: Masahiro Nakajima, Ryuta Yoshida

m-nakajima@rs.tus.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan

Ryuta Yoshida

Contributed equally to this work with: Masahiro Nakajima, Ryuta Yoshida

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan

Akimasa Miyanaga

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Koichi Abe

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan

Yuta Takahashi

Affiliation Graduate School of Science & Technology, Niigata University, Nishi-ku, Niigata, Japan

Naohisa Sugimoto

Affiliation Graduate School of Science & Technology, Niigata University, Nishi-ku, Niigata, Japan

Hiroyuki Toyoizumi

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan

Hiroyuki Nakai

Affiliation Graduate School of Science & Technology, Niigata University, Nishi-ku, Niigata, Japan

Motomitsu Kitaoka

Affiliation National Food Research Institute, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Hayao Taguchi

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MN H. Taguchi. Performed the experiments: MN RY KA YT NS H. Toyoizumi. Analyzed the data: MN RY AM H. Taguchi. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MN H. Taguchi. Wrote the paper: MN RY AM HN MK H. Taguchi.