About the Authors

Ni Hou

Affiliations Institute for Molecular and Cellular Regulation, Gunma University, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan, Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Hideo Mogami

Affiliations Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences, Hamamatsu University, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institute of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan

Chisato Kubota-Murata

Affiliation Institute for Molecular and Cellular Regulation, Gunma University, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

Meng Sun

Affiliation Institute for Molecular and Cellular Regulation, Gunma University, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

Toshiyuki Takeuchi

Affiliation Institute for Molecular and Cellular Regulation, Gunma University, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

Seiji Torii

storii@showa.gunma-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Institute for Molecular and Cellular Regulation, Gunma University, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NH ST. Performed the experiments: NH HM CKM MS ST. Analyzed the data: NH HM ST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HM TT ST. Wrote the paper: TT ST.