About the Authors

Yusuke Ogata

Contributed equally to this work with: Yusuke Ogata, Yo Mabuchi

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Graduate School of Health Care Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Yo Mabuchi

Contributed equally to this work with: Yusuke Ogata, Yo Mabuchi

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Graduate School of Health Care Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Mayu Yoshida

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Graduate School of Health Care Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Eriko Grace Suto

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Graduate School of Health Care Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Nobuharu Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Graduate School of Health Care Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Takeshi Muneta

Affiliation Department of Joint Surgery and Sport Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Ichiro Sekiya

Affiliation Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Chihiro Akazawa

c.akazawa.bb@tmd.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Graduate School of Health Care Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YO YM. Performed the experiments: YO MY. Analyzed the data: YO YM MY EGS NS. Wrote the paper: YO YM NS CA. Supervised the experiments: TM IS CA.