About the Authors

Nobuo Okahashi

okahashi@dent.osaka-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Oral Frontier Biology, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita-Osaka, Japan

Masanobu Nakata

Affiliation Department of Oral and Molecular Microbiology, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita-Osaka, Japan

Tomoko Sumitomo

Affiliation Department of Oral and Molecular Microbiology, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita-Osaka, Japan

Yutaka Terao

Affiliation Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan

Shigetada Kawabata

Affiliation Department of Oral and Molecular Microbiology, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita-Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NO. Performed the experiments: NO MN TS YT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YT SK. Wrote the paper: NO MN.