About the Authors

Shoko Takahashi

Affiliations Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Food for Life, Organization for Interdisciplinary Research Projects, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kenji Saito

Affiliation Food for Life, Organization for Interdisciplinary Research Projects, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Huijuan Jia

Affiliation Food for Life, Organization for Interdisciplinary Research Projects, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Hisanori Kato

akatoq@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Affiliation Food for Life, Organization for Interdisciplinary Research Projects, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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