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Acknowledgements
The authors thank Ichie Nishimura for technical support. This work was supported in part by research Grants
from the Project for Elucidating and Controlling Mechanisms of Ageing and Longevity, the Basis for Supporting Innovative Drug Discovery and Life Science Research program of the Japan Agency for Medical Research
and Development (JP21gm5010002 and JP21am0101092), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science
and Technology of Japan (17H01524, 18H04015, 20B307), the Kobayashi Foundation, and the Kusunoki 125 of
Kyoto University 125th Anniversary Fund.
Author contributions
M.D. conceived the project; M.D. and H.O. designed the research; Y.Y., I.M., and K.G. performed experiments
in collaboration with S.D., H.Z., G.S., H.S., and T.M.; M.D. and Y.Y. wrote the paper with input from all authors.
Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests.
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