About the Authors
- Tomohiro Hamasaki
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Contributed equally to this work with: Tomohiro Hamasaki, Hiroshi Suzuki, Hisao Shirohzu
Affiliation BONAC Corporation, BIO Factory 4F, Aikawa, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan
- Hiroshi Suzuki
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Contributed equally to this work with: Tomohiro Hamasaki, Hiroshi Suzuki, Hisao Shirohzu
Affiliation BONAC Corporation, BIO Factory 4F, Aikawa, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan
- Hisao Shirohzu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Tomohiro Hamasaki, Hiroshi Suzuki, Hisao Shirohzu
Affiliation BONAC Corporation, BIO Factory 4F, Aikawa, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan
- Takahiro Matsumoto
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Affiliations BONAC Corporation, BIO Factory 4F, Aikawa, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan, Department of Immunology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan
- Corina N. D'Alessandro-Gabazza
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Affiliations Department of Immunology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan
- Paloma Gil-Bernabe
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Affiliation Department of Immunology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan
- Daniel Boveda-Ruiz
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Affiliation Department of Immunology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan
- Masahiro Naito
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Affiliation Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan
- Tetsu Kobayashi
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Affiliation Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan
- Masaaki Toda
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Affiliation Department of Immunology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan
- Takayuki Mizutani
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Affiliations BONAC Corporation, BIO Factory 4F, Aikawa, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan, Department of Molecular Pathology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
- Osamu Taguchi
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Affiliation Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan
- John Morser
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Affiliation Division of Hematology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Yutaka Eguchi
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Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Department of Medical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
- Masahiko Kuroda
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Pathology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
- Takahiro Ochiya
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Affiliation National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
- Hirotake Hayashi
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Affiliation BONAC Corporation, BIO Factory 4F, Aikawa, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan
- Esteban C. Gabazza
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* E-mail: gabazza@doc.medic.mie-u.ac.jp (ECG); ohgi@bonac.co.jp (T. Ohgi)
Affiliations BONAC Corporation, BIO Factory 4F, Aikawa, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan, Department of Immunology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan
- Tadaaki Ohgi
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* E-mail: gabazza@doc.medic.mie-u.ac.jp (ECG); ohgi@bonac.co.jp (T. Ohgi)
Affiliation BONAC Corporation, BIO Factory 4F, Aikawa, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan
Competing Interests
TH, H. Suzuki, H. Shirohzu, T. Matsumoto and T. Mizutani are employees of BONAC Corporation. ECG, HH and T. Ohgi are members of the Board of Directors of BONAC Corporation. YE, MK, T. Ochiya, and JM are members of the Advisory Board of BONAC Corportation. Recently, the patent on nkRNA (WPO Patent WO/2012/005368A1) and PnkRNA (WPO Patent WO/2012/017919A1) became public, and in these patents, the names of HH, H. Shirohzu, TH, H. Suzuki are included. ECG has a pending patent (Patent 2011-237166) on the human TGF-beta1 transgenic mouse. The other authors have no conflict of interest. The products described above have not been as yet marketed. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ECG HH T. Ohgi. Performed the experiments: TH PGB TK MT T. Matsumoto H. Shirohzu CNDG T. Mizutani MN DBR. Analyzed the data: ECG OT YE JM MK T. Ochiya T. Ohgi. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HH T. Ohgi TH H. Suzuki. Wrote the paper: ECG JM.