About the Authors

Akihito Nakajima

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Naoko Negishi

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Hiromichi Tsurui

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Naomi Kadowaki-Ohtsuji

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Keiko Maeda

Affiliation Atopy (Allergy) Research Center, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Masanobu Nanno

Affiliation Yakult Central Institute for Microbiological Research, Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshitaka Yamaguchi

Affiliation Advanced Research Center for Genome Super Power, Keio University, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Nobuyoshi Shimizu

Affiliation Advanced Research Center for Genome Super Power, Keio University, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Hideo Yagita

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Ko Okumura

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Atopy (Allergy) Research Center, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Sonoko Habu

sonoko-h@juntendo.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AN SH. Performed the experiments: AN NN HT NKO KM. Analyzed the data: AN NN HT NKO KM HY KO SH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MN YY NS HY. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: AN HT HY KO SH.