About the Authors

Munkhbold Tuul

Affiliations Department of Molecular Oncology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Hiroyuki Kitao

hkitao@surg2.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Molecular Oncology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Innovative anticancer strategy for therapeutics and diagnosis group, Innovation Center for Medical Redox Navigation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Makoto Iimori

Affiliation Department of Molecular Oncology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Kazuaki Matsuoka

Affiliations Innovative anticancer strategy for therapeutics and diagnosis group, Innovation Center for Medical Redox Navigation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Tokushima Research Center, Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Tokushima, Japan

Shinichi Kiyonari

Affiliation Innovative anticancer strategy for therapeutics and diagnosis group, Innovation Center for Medical Redox Navigation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Hiroshi Saeki

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Eiji Oki

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Masaru Morita

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Yoshihiko Maehara

Affiliations Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Innovative anticancer strategy for therapeutics and diagnosis group, Innovation Center for Medical Redox Navigation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Competing Interests

Kazuaki Matsuoka is an employee of Tokushima Research Center, Taiho Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd (Tokushima, Japan) and Hiroyuki Kitao and Makoto Iimori are staffs of university course financially maintained by donation of Taiho Pharmaceutical Co.Ltd (Department of Molecular Oncology, Kyushu University). However, these do not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

N/A. Conceived and designed the experiments: HK MM YM. Performed the experiments: MT HK KM. Analyzed the data: MT HK MI KM SK HS EO MM YM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HK MI KM YM. Wrote the paper: MT HK MM YM.