About the Authors

Ryota Sugimoto

Contributed equally to this work with: Ryota Sugimoto, Naoko Ishibashi-Ohgo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Research and Development, euglena Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Naoko Ishibashi-Ohgo

Contributed equally to this work with: Ryota Sugimoto, Naoko Ishibashi-Ohgo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Research and Development, euglena Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Kohei Atsuji

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Research and Development, euglena Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Yuko Miwa

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Research and Development, euglena Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Osamu Iwata

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Research and Development, euglena Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Ayaka Nakashima

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

nakashima@euglena.jp

Affiliation Department of Research and Development, euglena Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Kengo Suzuki

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Research and Development, euglena Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

All authors are emloyed by euglena Co., Ltd. We have applied for patent in Japan, #2017-036838 (A PPARγ expression inhibitor, a C / EBPα expression inhibitor, a food composition for suppressing PPARγ expression, a food composition for suppressing C / EBPα expression, a cosmetic composition for suppressing PPARγ expression, a cosmetic composition for suppressing C / EBPα expression, Method for producing PPARγ expression inhibitor and method for producing C / EBPα expression inhibitor). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.