About the Authors

Masayuki Sano

Contributed equally to this work with: Masayuki Sano, Minoru Iijima

m.sano@aist.go.jp

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute for Drug Discovery, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Minoru Iijima

Contributed equally to this work with: Masayuki Sano, Minoru Iijima

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute for Drug Discovery, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Manami Ohtaka

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute for Drug Discovery, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Mahito Nakanishi

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute for Drug Discovery, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Competing Interests

MN is a founder and CTO (Chief Technology Officer) at Tokiwa-Bio. Inc. There are no patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MS MN. Funding acquisition: MS MN. Investigation: MS MI MO. Methodology: MS MN. Project administration: MS. Supervision: MS MN. Validation: MS MI MO. Visualization: MI. Writing – original draft: MS. Writing – review & editing: MS MI MO MN.