About the Authors
- Shigeru Sasaki
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* E-mail: ssasaki@sapmed.ac.jp (SS); mtoyota@sapmed.ac.jp (MT)
Affiliation First Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan
- Tadao Ishida
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Affiliation First Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan
- Minoru Toyota
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* E-mail: ssasaki@sapmed.ac.jp (SS); mtoyota@sapmed.ac.jp (MT)
Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan
- Akinobu Ota
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Affiliation Immuno-Biological Laboratories Co., Ltd., Fujioka, Japan
- Hiromu Suzuki
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Affiliations First Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan, Department of Molecular Biology, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan
- Akinori Takaoka
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Affiliation Division of Signaling in Cancer and Immunology, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
- Hiroshi Yasui
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Affiliations First Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan, Department of Molecular Biology, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan
- Hiroyuki Yamamoto
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Affiliation First Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan
- Hideyasu Takagi
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Affiliation First Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan
- Masahiro Maeda
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Affiliation Immuno-Biological Laboratories Co., Ltd., Fujioka, Japan
- Tsutomu Seito
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Affiliation Immuno-Biological Laboratories Co., Ltd., Fujioka, Japan
- Masayuki Tsujisaki
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hematology, Tenshi Hospital, Sapporo, Japan
- Yasuhisa Shinomura
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Affiliation First Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan
- Kohzoh Imai
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Affiliation Division of Novel Therapy for Cancer, The Advanced Clinical Research Center, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Competing Interests
A. Ota, M. Maeda, T. Seito are employees of Immuno-Biological Laboratories Co., Ltd. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials with other investigators.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SS TI KI M. Tsujisaki YS. Performed the experiments: SS TI AO AT HT HS . Analyzed the data: H. Yasui H. Yamamoto HT M. Toyota. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS YS AO MM . Wrote the paper: M. Toyota HS KI SS.