About the Authors

Atsushi Kuwahara

Contributed equally to this work with: Atsushi Kuwahara, Hiroshi Sakai, Yuanjiang Xu

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell Signaling, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Sakai

Contributed equally to this work with: Atsushi Kuwahara, Hiroshi Sakai, Yuanjiang Xu

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell Signaling, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yuanjiang Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Atsushi Kuwahara, Hiroshi Sakai, Yuanjiang Xu

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell Signaling, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yasuhiro Itoh

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell Signaling, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yusuke Hirabayashi

yhira@iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell Signaling, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yukiko Gotoh

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell Signaling, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

¤ Current address: Environmental Health Science Laboratory, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK YH YG. Performed the experiments: AK HS YX YH. Analyzed the data: AK HS YX YH YG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YI. Wrote the paper: AK YH YG. Supervised study: YH YG.