About the Authors

Mikiya Otsuji

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mohtsuji-tky@umin.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Shuji Ishihara

Affiliation Division of Theoretical Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan

Carl Co

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Program in Biological Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Kozo Kaibuchi

Affiliation Department of Cell Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Atsushi Mochizuki

Affiliation Division of Theoretical Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan

Shinya Kuroda

Affiliation Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

MO, SI, CC, KK, AM, and SK conceived and designed the experiments. MO performed the experiments. MO and SI analyzed the data. MO, SI, CC, KK, AM, and SK wrote the paper.