About the Authors

Chiaki Nagai-Okatani

shinjin@edu.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp (SN); chiaki-okatani@aist.go.jp (CNO)

Current address: Department of Life Science and Biotechnology, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan

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

Hiromichi Nagasawa

Current address: College of Life Science, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China

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 (SN); chiaki-okatani@aist.go.jp (CNO)

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: CNO SN. Performed the experiments: CNO SN. Analyzed the data: CNO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CNO SN. Wrote the paper: CNO HN SN.