About the Authors

Makoto Fukuta

Contributed equally to this work with: Makoto Fukuta, Yoshinori Nakai, Kosuke Kirino

Affiliations Department of Tissue Regeneration, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Department of Cell Growth and Differentiation, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan

Yoshinori Nakai

Contributed equally to this work with: Makoto Fukuta, Yoshinori Nakai, Kosuke Kirino

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Kosuke Kirino

Contributed equally to this work with: Makoto Fukuta, Yoshinori Nakai, Kosuke Kirino

Affiliation Department of Clinical Application, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Masato Nakagawa

Affiliation Department of Reprogramming Science, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Kazuya Sekiguchi

Affiliations Department of Tissue Regeneration, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Department of Cell Growth and Differentiation, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Sanae Nagata

Affiliation Department of Cell Growth and Differentiation, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Yoshihisa Matsumoto

Affiliations Department of Tissue Regeneration, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Department of Cell Growth and Differentiation, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan

Takuya Yamamoto

Affiliations Department of Reprogramming Science, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Katsutsugu Umeda

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Toshio Heike

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Naoki Okumura

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Japan

Noriko Koizumi

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Japan

Takahiko Sato

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Tatsutoshi Nakahata

Affiliation Department of Clinical Application, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Megumu Saito

Affiliation Department of Clinical Application, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Takanobu Otsuka

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan

Shigeru Kinoshita

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Morio Ueno

mueno@koto.kpu-m.ac.jp (MU); mikeya@cira.kyoto-u.ac.jp (MI); togjun@frontier.kyoto-u.ac.jp (JT)

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Makoto Ikeya

mueno@koto.kpu-m.ac.jp (MU); mikeya@cira.kyoto-u.ac.jp (MI); togjun@frontier.kyoto-u.ac.jp (JT)

Affiliation Department of Cell Growth and Differentiation, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Junya Toguchida

mueno@koto.kpu-m.ac.jp (MU); mikeya@cira.kyoto-u.ac.jp (MI); togjun@frontier.kyoto-u.ac.jp (JT)

Affiliations Department of Tissue Regeneration, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Department of Cell Growth and Differentiation, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MF NK TN MS TO SK MU MI JT. Performed the experiments: MF YN KK KS SN YM TY NO TS MI. Analyzed the data: MF YN KK NK MU TS MI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MN TY KU TH. Wrote the paper: MF YN TY MU MI JT.