About the Authors

Atsushi Miyashita

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 3–1, 7-chome, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Japan

Hayato Kizaki

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 3–1, 7-chome, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Japan

Kazuhisa Sekimizu

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 3–1, 7-chome, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Japan

Chikara Kaito

kaito@mol.f.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 3–1, 7-chome, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM CK. Performed the experiments: AM HK. Analyzed the data: AM HK KS CK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS CK. Wrote the paper: AM CK.