About the Authors
- Tokiyoshi Matsushita
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: tokiyoshi.matsushita@santen.com
Affiliations Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Gene Regulation, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan, Product Discovery, Ophthalmology Innovation Center, Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Ikoma, Nara, Japan
- Akishi Onishi
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Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Laboratory for Retinal Regeneration, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, Cell and Gene Therapy in Ophthalmology Laboratory, Baton Zone Program, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan
- Takahiro Matsuyama
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation
Affiliation Product Discovery, Ophthalmology Innovation Center, Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Ikoma, Nara, Japan
- Tomohiro Masuda
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology
Affiliations Laboratory for Retinal Regeneration, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, Cell and Gene Therapy in Ophthalmology Laboratory, Baton Zone Program, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan
- Yoko Ogino
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Roles Project administration
Affiliation Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Gene Regulation, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan
- Masaaki Kageyama
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Product Discovery, Ophthalmology Innovation Center, Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Ikoma, Nara, Japan
- Masayo Takahashi
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Roles Supervision
Affiliations Laboratory for Retinal Regeneration, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, Cell and Gene Therapy in Ophthalmology Laboratory, Baton Zone Program, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan
- Fumiaki Uchiumi
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Gene Regulation, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan
Competing Interests
The study was funded by Santen Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd and Tokiyoshi Matsushita, Takahiro Matsuyama, and Masaaki Kageyama are employed by Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Tokiyoshi Matsushita, Akishi Onishi, and Masayo Takahashi are co-inventors of a patent related to this work, filed by RIKEN and Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd [WO2022138803A1]. None of these alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.