About the Authors

Sivasundaram Karnan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan

Yuko Konishi

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan

Akinobu Ota

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan

Miyuki Takahashi

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan

Lkhagvasuren Damdindorj

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan

Yoshitaka Hosokawa

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan

Hiroyuki Konishi

hkonishi@aichi-med-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK YK HK. Performed the experiments: SK YK. Analyzed the data: SK YK AO MT LD YH HK. Wrote the paper: SK YK HK.