Matsuda, Kazunori
Akiyama, Takuya
Tsujibe, Satoshi
Oki, Kaihei
Gawad, Agata
Fujimoto, Junji
Article History
Received: 17 July 2020
Accepted: 12 January 2021
First Online: 27 January 2021
Competing interests
: S.T. and A.G. are employees of Yakult Honsha European Research Center for Microbiology VOF which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. K.M., T.A., K.O., and J.F. were the employees at the time of this study. Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd. has an international patent application (PCT application) related to the topic of the manuscript (inventors, T.A., K.M., and J.F.; application number, PCT/JP2019/47360.A; status of application, international phase).