About the Authors

Hisanao Kishimoto

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

kisimoto@toyaku.ac.jp (HK); dave.thornton@manchester.ac.uk (DJT)

Affiliations Department of Biopharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan, Wellcome Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Caroline Ridley

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Wellcome Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Katsuhisa Inoue

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biopharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan

David J. Thornton

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

kisimoto@toyaku.ac.jp (HK); dave.thornton@manchester.ac.uk (DJT)

Affiliation Wellcome Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.