About the Authors

Junya Hirokawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Junya Hirokawa, Akiya Watakabe

Affiliations Division of Brain Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan, Department of Basic Biology, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Okazaki, Japan

Akiya Watakabe

Contributed equally to this work with: Junya Hirokawa, Akiya Watakabe

Affiliations Division of Brain Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan, Department of Basic Biology, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Okazaki, Japan

Sonoko Ohsawa

Affiliation Division of Brain Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan

Tetsuo Yamamori

yamamori@nibb.ac.jp

Affiliations Division of Brain Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan, Department of Basic Biology, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Okazaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JH AW TY. Performed the experiments: JH AW SO. Analyzed the data: JH AW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH AW. Wrote the paper: JH AW TY.