About the Authors

Sho Ogata

sogata@ndmc.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Cell Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, and Graduate University of Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Okazaki, Aichi, Japan, Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Defense Medical College Hospital, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan

Takashi Miki

Affiliations Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, Department of Medical Physiology, Chiba University, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Chiba, Japan

Susumu Seino

Affiliation Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Seiichi Tamai

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Defense Medical College Hospital, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan

Haruo Kasai

Affiliations Department of Cell Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, and Graduate University of Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Okazaki, Aichi, Japan, Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

Tomomi Nemoto

Affiliations Department of Cell Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, and Graduate University of Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Okazaki, Aichi, Japan, Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biophysics, Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University and Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SO HK TN. Performed the experiments: SO TN. Analyzed the data: SO TN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TM SS. Wrote the paper: SO TM SS ST HK TN.