About the Authors

Shiori Yamaguchi

Contributed equally to this work with: Shiori Yamaguchi, Takuya Yamane

Affiliation Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Takuya Yamane

Contributed equally to this work with: Shiori Yamaguchi, Takuya Yamane

Affiliation Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Kazuko Takahashi-Niki

Affiliation Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Izumi Kato

Affiliation Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Takeshi Niki

Affiliation Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Matthew S. Goldberg

Affiliation Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States of America

Jie Shen

Affiliation Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States of America

Kenji Ishimoto

Affiliation Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Suita, Japan

Takefumi Doi

Affiliation Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Suita, Japan

Sanae M. M. Iguchi-Ariga

Affiliation Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Hiroyoshi Ariga

hiro@pharm.hokudai.ac.jp

Affiliation Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: HA. Conceptualized the study: HA SI-A. Carried out experiments: SY TY KT-N IK TN. Conducted the analyses: TY KT-N IK TN. Provided DJ-1-knockout mice: MSG JS. Gave the plasmids: KI TD.