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When I was writing this book, I had the entire text checked at both the manuscript and
scenario stages by Professor Yukio Furuichi (emeritus professor at Mie University and cur-
rently a professor at Nagoya Women’s University), whose specialty is lipid biochemistry, and
Professor Shonen Yoshida (emeritus professor at Nagoya University and currently a consul-
tant at the Cancer Immunotherapy Center of Nagoya Kyoritsu Hospital), whose specialties
are biochemistry and molecular biology. Professor Furuichi provided guidance for my gradu-
ate thesis, and Professor Yoshida provided guidance for my PhD thesis. I would like to take
this opportunity to express my deep gratitude to both of them for taking time from their
busy schedules to proofread this manuscript.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Professor Kazuo Kamemura, my men-
tor during my graduate student days, and his graduate student, Mitsutaka Ogawa, both of
Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology. Specifically, I would like to thank them
for the lectin blotting data that they provided. I would also like to thank everyone at the
Ohmsha Development Bureau for their ongoing help on my previous work, The Manga Guide
to Molecular Biology; Sawako Sawada of Office Sawa; the manga artist Kikuyaro, who cre-
ated the delightful scenario and drawings; and, above all, you for choosing to read this book.

Masaharu Takemura
January 2009

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