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Acknowledgements

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all of our co-workers and collaborators:

Kayoko Tsukita, Takako Enami, and Ayako Nagahashi for their technical support, Mikie

Iijima, Nozomi Kawabata, Tomomi Urai, and Miho Nagata for their valuable administrative support, and Minako Tateno for critical reading of the manuscript. This research

was funded in part by a grant for Core Center for iPS Cell Research of the Research

Center Network for Realization of Regenerative Medicine from AMED (H.I.) and the

Uehara Memorial Foundation (H.I.) and partially supported by the Center of Innovation

Program from MEXT and JST (H.I.).

Author contributions

H.I. conceived the project. DN.AS., K.I., I.I., R.K., S.S., T.O., Y.K., T.K., Y.Y. and A.W.

performed the experiments. W.L.K. provided antibodies. DN.AS., K.I., T.K. and H.I.

wrote the manuscript.

Competing interests

The authors declare no competing interests.

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