About the Authors
- Sumito Yoshida
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Contributed equally to this work with: Sumito Yoshida, Hiroaki Shime
Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo City, Japan, Department of Pathology I, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo City, Japan
- Hiroaki Shime
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Contributed equally to this work with: Sumito Yoshida, Hiroaki Shime
Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo City, Japan
- Kenji Funami
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo City, Japan
- Hiromi Takaki
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo City, Japan
- Misako Matsumoto
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Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo City, Japan, Department of Pathology I, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo City, Japan
- Masanori Kasahara
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Affiliation Department of Pathology I, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo City, Japan
- Tsukasa Seya
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* E-mail: seya-tu@pop.med.hokudai.ac.jp
Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo City, Japan, Department of Pathology I, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo City, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors received funding from Three B Co., Inc., a commercial company, in the form of research materials for this study. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: HS TS. Data curation: SY HS KF HT MM MK TS. Formal analysis: SY HS KF. Funding acquisition: HS KF MM TS. Investigation: SY. Methodology: SY HS KF HT. Project administration: MM MK TS. Supervision: MM MK. Validation: TS. Visualization: SY. Writing – original draft: SY HS TS. Writing – review & editing: TS.