About the Authors
- Jiro Katoh
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jiro Katoh, Ai Kawana-Tachikawa
Current address: Medical & Biological Laboratories co. ltd., Nagoya, Japan
Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Advanced Clinical Research Center, the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Medical Genome Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo. Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, Japan
- Ai Kawana-Tachikawa
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jiro Katoh, Ai Kawana-Tachikawa
Current address: AIDS Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Advanced Clinical Research Center, the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Akihisa Shimizu
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Current address: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd., Kashiwa, Chiba 277–0882, Japan
Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Advanced Clinical Research Center, the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Dayong Zhu
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Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Advanced Clinical Research Center, the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Chungyong Han
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Current address: Cancer Immunology Branch, Division of Cancer Biology, National Cancer Center, Goyang-si, Gyeongi-do 410–769, Korea
Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Advanced Clinical Research Center, the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Hitomi Nakamura
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Current address: Shinagawa East Medical Clinic, Tokyo, Japan
Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Control, the International Research Center for Infectious Diseases, the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Infectious Diseases and Applied Immunology, Hospital, the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Michiko Koga
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Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Advanced Clinical Research Center, the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Infectious Diseases and Applied Immunology, Hospital, the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Tadashi Kikuchi
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Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Advanced Clinical Research Center, the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Infectious Diseases and Applied Immunology, Hospital, the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Eisuke Adachi
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Applied Immunology, Hospital, the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Tomohiko Koibuchi
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Applied Immunology, Hospital, the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- George F. Gao
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Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Zabrina L. Brumme
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Affiliations Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Aikichi Iwamoto
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* E-mail: aikichi@zj9.so-net.ne.jp
Current address: Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, Tokyo, Japan
Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Advanced Clinical Research Center, the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Medical Genome Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo. Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, Japan, Department of Infectious Disease Control, the International Research Center for Infectious Diseases, the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Infectious Diseases and Applied Immunology, Hospital, the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Asian Research Center for Infectious Diseases, the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JK AKT GFG AI. Performed the experiments: JK AKT AS DZ CH. Analyzed the data: JK AKT ZLB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JK AKT AS DZ CH HN MK T. Kikuchi EA T. Koibuchi AI. Wrote the paper: JK ZLB AI. Obtained written informed consent: HN MK T. Kikuchi EA T. Koibuchi AI. Obtained clinical data: HN MK T. Kikuchi EA T. Koibuchi AI.