About the Authors

Masatoshi Yamada

Contributed equally to this work with: Masatoshi Yamada, Yoshiteru Hashimoto

Affiliation Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Yoshiteru Hashimoto

Contributed equally to this work with: Masatoshi Yamada, Yoshiteru Hashimoto

Affiliation Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Takuto Kumano

Affiliation Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Seiya Tsujimura

Affiliation Division of Materials Science, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Michihiko Kobayashi

kobayashi.m.fe@u.tsukuba.ac.jp

Affiliation Institute of Applied Biochemistry and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MY YH TK MK. Data curation: MY YH TK ST MK. Formal analysis: MY YH TK ST MK. Funding acquisition: MK. Investigation: MY YH TK ST MK. Project administration: MY YH MK. Supervision: MK. Validation: MY YH TK ST MK. Writing – original draft: MY YH MK. Writing – review & editing: MY YH MK.