About the Authors

Kazutaka Terahara

Contributed equally to this work with: Kazutaka Terahara, Masayuki Ishige

Affiliation Department of Immunology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Masayuki Ishige

Contributed equally to this work with: Kazutaka Terahara, Masayuki Ishige

Affiliations Department of Immunology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Hematopoiesis, Center for AIDS Research, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

Shota Ikeno

Affiliations Department of Immunology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan, Laboratory of Viral Infection II, Kitasato Institute for Life Science, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan

Yu-ya Mitsuki

Affiliation Department of Immunology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Seiji Okada

Affiliation Division of Hematopoiesis, Center for AIDS Research, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

Kazuo Kobayashi

Affiliation Department of Immunology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Yasuko Tsunetsugu-Yokota

yyokota@nih.go.jp

Affiliation Department of Immunology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KT YTY. Performed the experiments: KT MI SI YYM. Analyzed the data: KT MI SO KK YTY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SO. Wrote the paper: KT. Edited the paper: KK YTY.