About the Authors

Hideyuki Tanabe

Affiliation Department of Biological Information, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

Issei Takayama

Affiliation Department of Biological Information, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

Takashi Nishiyama

Affiliation Department of Biological Information, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

Masashi Shimazaki

Affiliation Department of Biological Information, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

Isao Kii

Affiliation Department of Biological Information, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

Minqi Li

Affiliation Division of Oral Health Science, Department of Developmental Biology of Hard Tissue, Graduate School of Dental Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Norio Amizuka

Affiliation Division of Oral Health Science, Department of Developmental Biology of Hard Tissue, Graduate School of Dental Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Ken-ichi Katsube

Affiliation Department of Molecular Pathology, Graduate School of Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Akira Kudo

akudo@bio.titech.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Biological Information, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HT KiK AK. Performed the experiments: HT IT TN MS ML AK. Analyzed the data: HT NA AK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HT IK KiK AK. Wrote the paper: HT AK.