About the Authors

Norio Yamakawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Norio Yamakawa, Kazuko Kaneda

Affiliation Division of Tumor and Cellular Biochemistry, Department of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Kazuko Kaneda

Contributed equally to this work with: Norio Yamakawa, Kazuko Kaneda

Affiliation Division of Tumor and Cellular Biochemistry, Department of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Yusuke Saito

Affiliation Division of Tumor and Cellular Biochemistry, Department of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Emi Ichihara

Affiliation Division of Tumor and Cellular Biochemistry, Department of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Kazuhiro Morishita

kmorishi@medmiyazaki-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Division of Tumor and Cellular Biochemistry, Department of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KM NY. Performed the experiments: NY KK YS. Analyzed the data: EI YS KM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EI YS. Wrote the paper: KM NY KK.