About the Authors

Kazumi Hirano

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell Biology, Department of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan

Norihiko Sasaki

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell Biology, Department of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan

Tomomi Ichimiya

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell Biology, Department of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan

Taichi Miura

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell Biology, Department of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan

Toin H. Van Kuppevelt

Affiliation Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Shoko Nishihara

shoko@soka.ac.jp

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell Biology, Department of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SN. Performed the experiments: KH NS TI TM. Analyzed the data: KH NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: THVK. Wrote the paper: KH NS SN.