About the Authors

Takeshi Nitta

Affiliation Division of Experimental Immunology, Institute for Genome Research, University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan

Mariam Nasreen

Affiliation Division of Experimental Immunology, Institute for Genome Research, University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan

Takafumi Seike

Affiliation Division of Experimental Immunology, Institute for Genome Research, University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan

Atsushi Goji

Affiliation Division of Experimental Immunology, Institute for Genome Research, University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan

Izumi Ohigashi

Affiliation Division of Experimental Immunology, Institute for Genome Research, University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan

Tadaaki Miyazaki

Affiliation Division of Molecular Immunology, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Tsutomu Ohta

Affiliation Medical Genomics Center, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Masamoto Kanno

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, Japan

Yousuke Takahama

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: takahama@genome.tokushima-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Division of Experimental Immunology, Institute for Genome Research, University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

TN and YT conceived and designed the experiments. TN, MN, TS, AG, and IO performed the experiments. TN, MN, and TS analyzed the data. TN, TM, TO, and MK contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. TN and YT wrote the paper.