About the Authors

Fumiyasu Momose

Affiliations Department of Immuno-Gene Therapy, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Edobashi, Tsu, Mie 514–8507, Japan, ERATO Bio-Nanotransporter Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo 102–0076, Japan

Naohiro Seo

seo-naohiro@clin.medic.mie-u.ac.jp (NS); shiku@clin.medic.mie-u.ac.jp (HS)

Affiliations Department of Immuno-Gene Therapy, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Edobashi, Tsu, Mie 514–8507, Japan, ERATO Bio-Nanotransporter Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo 102–0076, Japan

Yasushi Akahori

Affiliations Department of Immuno-Gene Therapy, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Edobashi, Tsu, Mie 514–8507, Japan, ERATO Bio-Nanotransporter Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo 102–0076, Japan

Shin-ichi Sawada

Affiliations Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615–8510, Japan, ERATO Bio-Nanotransporter Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo 102–0076, Japan

Naozumi Harada

Affiliations Department of Immuno-Gene Therapy, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Edobashi, Tsu, Mie 514–8507, Japan, ERATO Bio-Nanotransporter Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo 102–0076, Japan

Toru Ogura

Affiliation Clinical Research Support Center, Mie University Hospital, Tsu Mie 514–8507, Japan

Kazunari Akiyoshi

Affiliations Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615–8510, Japan, ERATO Bio-Nanotransporter Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo 102–0076, Japan

Hiroshi Shiku

seo-naohiro@clin.medic.mie-u.ac.jp (NS); shiku@clin.medic.mie-u.ac.jp (HS)

Affiliations Department of Immuno-Gene Therapy, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Edobashi, Tsu, Mie 514–8507, Japan, ERATO Bio-Nanotransporter Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo 102–0076, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FM NS. Performed the experiments: FM NS. Analyzed the data: FM NS YA SS NH TO KA HS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FM NS YA. Wrote the paper: NS.