About the Authors

Katsuyoshi Masuda

Contributed equally to this work with: Katsuyoshi Masuda, Ayako Koizumi

Affiliation Suntory Institute for Bioorganic Research, Mishima-gun, Osaka, Japan

Ayako Koizumi

Contributed equally to this work with: Katsuyoshi Masuda, Ayako Koizumi

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Ken-ichiro Nakajima

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Takaharu Tanaka

Affiliation Suntory Institute for Bioorganic Research, Mishima-gun, Osaka, Japan

Keiko Abe

Affiliations Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Food Safety and Reliability Project, Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Takumi Misaka

ishiguro@nupals.ac.jp (MI); amisaka@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (TM)

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Masaji Ishiguro

ishiguro@nupals.ac.jp (MI); amisaka@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (TM)

Affiliations Suntory Institute for Bioorganic Research, Mishima-gun, Osaka, Japan, Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Life Sciences, Akiha-ku, Niigata, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KM TT KA TM MI. Performed the experiments: KM AK KN MI. Analyzed the data: KM AK KN TM MI. Wrote the paper: AK TM MI.