About the Authors

Akiko Miyama

Affiliation Department of Medical Life Systems, Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences, Doshisha University, Tatara, Kyotanabe, Kyoto, Japan

Yoshiro Saito

ysaito@mail.doshisha.ac.jp (YS); nnoguchi@mail.doshisha.ac.jp (NN)

Affiliation Department of Medical Life Systems, Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences, Doshisha University, Tatara, Kyotanabe, Kyoto, Japan

Kazunori Yamanaka

Affiliation Department of Medical Life Systems, Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences, Doshisha University, Tatara, Kyotanabe, Kyoto, Japan

Kojiro Hayashi

Affiliation Department of Medical Life Systems, Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences, Doshisha University, Tatara, Kyotanabe, Kyoto, Japan

Takao Hamakubo

Affiliation Laboratory of Systems Biology and Medicine, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Noriko Noguchi

ysaito@mail.doshisha.ac.jp (YS); nnoguchi@mail.doshisha.ac.jp (NN)

Affiliation Department of Medical Life Systems, Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences, Doshisha University, Tatara, Kyotanabe, Kyoto, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YS. Performed the experiments: AM KY KH. Analyzed the data: AM YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TH. Wrote the paper: YS NN.