Toyoda, Yu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7411-0531
Takada, Tappei http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3868-9320
Saito, Hiroki
Hirata, Hiroshi
Ota-Kontani, Ami
Kobayashi, Naoyuki
Tsuchiya, Youichi
Suzuki, Hiroshi
Funding for this research was provided by:
MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (16H01808, 18KK0247, 15H05610, 19K16441)
Tappei Takada has received research grants from Gout Research Foundation, The Takeda Medical Foundation, and MSD Life Science Foundation, Public Interest Incorporated Foundation
Article History
Received: 5 September 2019
Accepted: 13 January 2020
First Online: 5 February 2020
Competing interests
: H. Saito, H.H., A.O.-K., N.K., and Y. Tsuchiya are employees of SAPPORO HOLDINGS LTD. Y. Toyoda, T.T., H. Saito, H.H., A.O.-K., and H. Suzuki have a patent pending related to the work reported in this article. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.