About the Authors

Shiki Takamura

takamura@med.kindai.ac.jp (ST); masaaki@med.kindai.ac.jp (MM)

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Eiji Kajiwara

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Sachiyo Tsuji-Kawahara

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Tomoko Masumoto

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Makoto Fujisawa

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Maiko Kato

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Tomomi Chikaishi

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Yuri Kawasaki

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Saori Kinoshita

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Manami Itoi

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Meiji University of Integrative Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Nobuo Sakaguchi

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Kumamoto, Japan

Masaaki Miyazawa

takamura@med.kindai.ac.jp (ST); masaaki@med.kindai.ac.jp (MM)

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST. Performed the experiments: ST EK STK TM MF MK TC YK SK. Analyzed the data: ST MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ST EK MI NS MM. Wrote the paper: ST MM.