About the Authors

Yukihisa Matsumoto

Affiliation Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Daisuke Hirashima

Affiliation Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Kanta Terao

Affiliation Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Makoto Mizunami

mizunami@sci.hokudai.ac.jp

Affiliation Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YM DH MM. Performed the experiments: YM DH KT. Analyzed the data: DH YM MM. Wrote the manuscript: YM MM.