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Acknowledgements
We thank the Medical Research Support Center (MRSC), Graduate School of Medicine,
Kyoto University for providing the research instruments. We thank KEYENCE for
providing the fluorescence microscope used in this study. We also thank Masahiro
Kawashima, Fengling Pu, Yukiko Fukui, and Yuki Nakamura for their helpful suggestions. This study was supported in part by the Japan Science and Technology Agency
Support for Pioneering Research Initiated by the Next Generation (JST-SPRING; grant
number JPMJSP2110). This work was also supported by a scholarship from the China
Scholarship Council under Grant No.202208050044.
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Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to Kosuke Kawaguchi.
W.L., K.K., M.T., and E.S. contributed substantially to project design. W.L. performed the
experiments and analyzed the data. W.L., C.H., and Y.M. analyzed the RNA-Seq data and
interpreted the results. K.K. and S.T. provided suggestions and technical support for the
experiments. W.L. drafted the manuscript. K.K. and M.T. supervised the study and
revised the manuscript. All authors have approved the submitted version of the manuscript and agreed to be accountable for any part of this work.
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The authors declare the following competing interests: K.K.: grants from TERUMO,
Astellas, Eli Lilly, and Kyoto Breast Cancer Research Network; consulting fees from
Becton Dickinson, Japan; honoraria from Eisai, Chugai, and Takeda. M.T.: grants from
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