About the Authors

Yuusuke Fujimoto

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Division of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan

Kazi Abdus Salam

Contributed equally to this work with: Kazi Abdus Salam, Atsushi Furuta

Affiliation Radioisotope Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Atsushi Furuta

Contributed equally to this work with: Kazi Abdus Salam, Atsushi Furuta

Affiliations Biomedical Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan, Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Yasuyoshi Matsuda

Affiliations Biomedical Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan, Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Osamu Fujita

Affiliations Biomedical Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan, Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Hidenori Tani

Affiliation Research Institute for Environmental Management Technology, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan

Masanori Ikeda

Affiliation Department of Tumor Virology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Nobuyuki Kato

Affiliation Department of Tumor Virology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Naoya Sakamoto

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Shinya Maekawa

Affiliation First Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan

Nobuyuki Enomoto

Affiliation First Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan

Nicole J. de Voogd

Affiliation Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands

Masamichi Nakakoshi

Affiliation Institute of Medical Chemistry, Hoshi University, Tokyo, Japan

Masayoshi Tsubuki

Affiliation Institute of Medical Chemistry, Hoshi University, Tokyo, Japan

Yuji Sekiguchi

Affiliation Biomedical Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan

Satoshi Tsuneda

Affiliation Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Nobuyoshi Akimitsu

Affiliation Radioisotope Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Naohiro Noda

Affiliations Biomedical Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan, Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Atsuya Yamashita

atsuyay@yamanashi.ac.jp (AY); jtanaka@sci.u-ryukyu.ac.jp (JT); kmoriishi@yamanashi.ac.jp (KM)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Division of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan

Junichi Tanaka

atsuyay@yamanashi.ac.jp (AY); jtanaka@sci.u-ryukyu.ac.jp (JT); kmoriishi@yamanashi.ac.jp (KM)

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Biology and Marine Science, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan

Kohji Moriishi

atsuyay@yamanashi.ac.jp (AY); jtanaka@sci.u-ryukyu.ac.jp (JT); kmoriishi@yamanashi.ac.jp (KM)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Division of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MN MT YS ST NA NN AY JT KM. Performed the experiments: YF KAS AF YM OF HT AY. Analyzed the data: MI NK NS SM NE. Wrote the paper: YF AY JT KM. Collected marine organisms: JT. Identified the sponge: NJdV.