About the Authors

Aya Kurosawa

Affiliation Graduate School of Nanobioscience, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan

Shinta Saito

Affiliation Graduate School of Nanobioscience, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan

Sairei So

Affiliation Graduate School of Nanobioscience, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan

Mitsumasa Hashimoto

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa, Japan

Kuniyoshi Iwabuchi

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa, Japan

Haruka Watabe

Affiliation Graduate School of Nanobioscience, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan

Noritaka Adachi

nadachi@yokohama-cu.ac.jp

Affiliations Graduate School of Nanobioscience, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan, Advanced Medical Research Center, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK NA. Performed the experiments: AK SS SS HW. Analyzed the data: AK NA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH KI. Wrote the paper: AK NA.