About the Authors

Tadashi Miyamoto

Affiliation Department of Viral infections, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Masaru Yokoyama

Affiliation Pathogen Genomics Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Musashi Murayama, Tokyo, Japan

Ken Kono

Affiliations Department of Viral infections, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan

Tatsuo Shioda

Affiliation Department of Viral infections, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Hironori Sato

Affiliation Pathogen Genomics Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Musashi Murayama, Tokyo, Japan

Emi E. Nakayama

emien@biken.osaka-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Viral infections, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TS HS EEN. Performed the experiments: TM MY KK EEN. Analyzed the data: TS HS EEN. Wrote the paper: TM HS TS EEN.