About the Authors

Katsuma Kitazoe

Affiliation Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Yeon-Su Park

yspman@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, FIRST Research Center for Innovative Nanobiodevices, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Noritada Kaji

Affiliations Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, FIRST Research Center for Innovative Nanobiodevices, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Yukihiro Okamoto

Affiliations Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, FIRST Research Center for Innovative Nanobiodevices, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Manabu Tokeshi

Affiliations Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, FIRST Research Center for Innovative Nanobiodevices, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Kentaro Kogure

Affiliation Department of Biophysical Chemistry, Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Kyoto, Japan

Hideyoshi Harashima

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular Design of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Yoshinobu Baba

Affiliations Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, FIRST Research Center for Innovative Nanobiodevices, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, Health Technology Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Takamatsu, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NK YO MT K. Kogure HH YB. Performed the experiments: KKZ. Analyzed the data: K. Khazoe YSP NK YO MT YB. Wrote the paper: YSP.