About the Authors

Yukino Chiba

Contributed equally to this work with: Yukino Chiba, Izuru Mizoguchi

Affiliation Department of Immunoregulation, Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Izuru Mizoguchi

Contributed equally to this work with: Yukino Chiba, Izuru Mizoguchi

Affiliation Department of Immunoregulation, Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Kana Mitobe

Affiliation Department of Immunoregulation, Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Kaname Higuchi

Affiliations Department of Immunoregulation, Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Immunology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Nagai

Affiliation Division of Dermatology, Department of Clinical Molecular Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Chikako Nishigori

Affiliation Division of Dermatology, Department of Clinical Molecular Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Junichiro Mizuguchi

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Takayuki Yoshimoto

yoshimot@tokyo-med.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Immunoregulation, Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TY JM. Performed the experiments: YC IM KM KH. Analyzed the data: YC IM TY. Wrote the paper: TY HN CN.