Masataka Taga,^1,* Kengo Yoshida,¹ Shiho Yano,¹ Keiko Takahashi,¹ Seishi Kyoizumi,¹ Megumi Sasatani,² Keiji Suzuki,³ Tomohiro Ogawa,⁴ Yoichiro Kusunoki,¹ Tatsuaki Tsuruyama<sup>1,5

1</sup>Department of Molecular Biosciences, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, 5-2 Hijiyama Park, Minami-ku, Hiroshima City, Hiroshima, Japan
²Department of Experimental Oncology, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
³Radiation Risk Control Unit, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
⁴Center for the Advancement of Higher Education, Faculty of Engineering, Kindai University, Hiroshima, Japan
⁵Department of Drug Discovery Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

^*Address for correspondence: Department of Molecular Biosciences, Radiation Effects Research Foundation; email: taga@rerf.or.jp.