About the Authors

Hideki Shigematsu

Current address: Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan

Kazuko Iida

Affiliation Biomembrane Laboratory, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Masataka Nakano

Affiliation Department of Biology, Tokyo Gakugei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan

Pratima Chaudhuri

Current address: Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Sector-125, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Affiliation Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan

Hidetoshi Iida

iida@u-gakugei.ac.jp (HI); nagayama@nips.ac.jp (KN)

Affiliations Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan, Department of Biology, Tokyo Gakugei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan

Kuniaki Nagayama

iida@u-gakugei.ac.jp (HI); nagayama@nips.ac.jp (KN)

Affiliations Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan, Department of Physiological Sciences, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HS HI KN. Performed the experiments: HS KI MN PC HI. Analyzed the data: HS KI MN HI KN. Wrote the paper: HS HI KN.