About the Authors

Shaoying Tang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Tomoko Yonezawa

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tomoy@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Yukihide Maeda

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Mitsuaki Ono

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Takahiro Maeba

Roles Investigation, Validation

Current address: Department of Plastic Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Fukuoka Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Toru Miyoshi

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Ryusuke Momota

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Human Morphology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Yasuko Tomono

Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Division of Molecular and Cell Biology, Shigei Medical Research Institute, Okayama, Japan

Toshitaka Oohashi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.