About the Authors

Kouyuki Hirayasu

Contributed equally to this work with: Kouyuki Hirayasu, Toshio Yabe

hirayasu@ifrec.osaka-u.ac.jp (KH); to-yabe@tokyo.bc.jrc.or.jp (TY)

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan, Japanese Red Cross Tokyo Blood Center, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Immunochemistry, WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Jun Ohashi

Affiliation Doctoral Program in Life System Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Koichi Kashiwase

Affiliation Japanese Red Cross Tokyo Blood Center, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Hathairad Hananantachai

Affiliation Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Izumi Naka

Affiliation Doctoral Program in Life System Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Atsuko Ogawa

Affiliation Japanese Red Cross Tokyo Blood Center, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Minoko Takanashi

Affiliation Japanese Red Cross Tokyo Blood Center, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Masahiro Satake

Affiliation Japanese Red Cross Tokyo Blood Center, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Kazunori Nakajima

Affiliation Japanese Red Cross Tokyo Blood Center, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Peter Parham

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Hisashi Arase

Affiliations Department of Immunochemistry, WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Department of Immunochemistry, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, Japan

Katsushi Tokunaga

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Jintana Patarapotikul

Affiliation Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Toshio Yabe

Contributed equally to this work with: Kouyuki Hirayasu, Toshio Yabe

hirayasu@ifrec.osaka-u.ac.jp (KH); to-yabe@tokyo.bc.jrc.or.jp (TY)

Affiliation Japanese Red Cross Tokyo Blood Center, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KH JO PP HA KT JP TY. Performed the experiments: KH JO HH IN JP. Analyzed the data: KH JO PP TY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KK AO MT MS KN. Wrote the paper: KH JO PP HA TY.