About the Authors

Tohru Minamino

tohru@fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp (TM); keiichi@fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp (KN)

Affiliation Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, 1–3 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Yusuke V. Morimoto

Affiliations Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, 1–3 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Quantitative Biology Center, RIKEN, 6-2-3 Furuedai, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Noritaka Hara

Affiliation Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, 1–3 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Phillip D. Aldridge

Affiliation Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Medical Sciences New Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Keiichi Namba

tohru@fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp (TM); keiichi@fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp (KN)

Affiliations Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, 1–3 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Quantitative Biology Center, RIKEN, 6-2-3 Furuedai, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TM KN. Performed the experiments: TM YVM NH PDA. Analyzed the data: TM YVM NH PDA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TM YVM NH PDA. Wrote the paper: TM KN.