About the Authors

Masahiro Ogawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Masahiro Ogawa, Tadashi Okamura

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka, Japan, Central Research Institute for Advanced Molecular Medicine, Fukuoka University, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

Tadashi Okamura

Contributed equally to this work with: Masahiro Ogawa, Tadashi Okamura

Affiliation Division of Animal Models, Department of Infectious Diseases, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Shuhei Ishikura

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka, Japan, Central Research Institute for Advanced Molecular Medicine, Fukuoka University, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

Keiko Doi

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka, Japan, Central Research Institute for Advanced Molecular Medicine, Fukuoka University, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

Hiroshi Matsuzaki

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

Yoko Tanaka

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

Takeharu Ota

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka, Japan, Central Research Institute for Advanced Molecular Medicine, Fukuoka University, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

Kunihiro Hayakawa

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Pathology, National Institute for Global Health and Medicine, Chiba, Japan

Harumi Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Pathology, National Institute for Global Health and Medicine, Chiba, Japan

Toshiyuki Tsunoda

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka, Japan, Central Research Institute for Advanced Molecular Medicine, Fukuoka University, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

Takehiko Sasazuki

Affiliation Institute for Advanced Study, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Senji Shirasawa

sshirasa@fukuoka-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka, Japan, Central Research Institute for Advanced Molecular Medicine, Fukuoka University, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MO SS. Performed the experiments: MO KD HM YT T. Ota KH HS. Analyzed the data: MO SI TT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: T. Okamura TS SS. Wrote the paper: MO SI SS.