Toda, Yasuka
Nakagita, Tomoya
Hirokawa, Takatsugu
Yamashita, Yuki
Nakajima, Ayako
Narukawa, Masataka
Ishimaru, Yoshiro
Uchida, Riichiro
Misaka, Takumi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9547-5767
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (LS037, JP16H04918)
Article History
Received: 18 September 2017
Accepted: 29 July 2018
First Online: 7 August 2018
Competing Interests
: Dr. Uchida, Ms. Yamashita, and Dr. Nakajima are employees of Kikkoman Corp, and are inventors of a patent filed with the Japan Patent Office (JP5678281). Dr. Uchida also applied for a patent on an umami taste enhancer (JP2016-073277). The authors declare no financial conflict of interest was present regarding the results or interpretation of the experiments in this paper. Dr. Toda, Dr. Nakagita, Dr. Hirokawa, Dr. Narukawa, Dr. Ishimaru, and Dr. Misaka declare no potential conflict of interest.