About the Authors

Masatake Kai

Current address: Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, 1-4-3 Asahi-machi, Abeno-ku, Osaka 545-8585, Japan

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, 38 Nishigonaka, Myodaiji-cho, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan

Naoto Ueno

Affiliations Department of Developmental Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, 38 Nishigonaka, Myodaiji-cho, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan, Department of Molecular Biomechanics, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), 38 Nishigonaka, Myodaiji-cho, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan

Noriyuki Kinoshita

nkinoshi@nibb.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Developmental Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, 38 Nishigonaka, Myodaiji-cho, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan, Department of Molecular Biomechanics, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), 38 Nishigonaka, Myodaiji-cho, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NK. Performed the experiments: MK NK. Analyzed the data: MK NK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NK NU. Wrote the paper: MK NK NU.