About the Authors

Takahiro Konuma

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yusuke Tsukamoto

Affiliation Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan

Hiromichi Nagasawa

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Shinji Nagata

shinjin@edu.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TK YT HN SN. Performed the experiments: TK YT SN. Analyzed the data: TK YT SN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TK YT SN. Wrote the paper: TK YT HN SN.