About the Authors

Akira Mizoguchi

mizoguch@bio.nagoya-u.ac.jp (AM); kataoka@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp (HK)

Affiliation Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Shintaro Ohsumi

Affiliation Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Katuji Kobayashi

Affiliation Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Naoki Okamoto

Current address: Laboratory for Growth Control Signaling, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Affiliation Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Nobuto Yamada

Affiliation Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Ken Tateishi

Affiliation Safety Management Section, National Institute of Agrobiological Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Yoshinori Fujimoto

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Kataoka

mizoguch@bio.nagoya-u.ac.jp (AM); kataoka@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp (HK)

Affiliation Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM HK. Performed the experiments: AM SO KK NO NY YF. Analyzed the data: AM KK NO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KT. Wrote the paper: AM NO.