About the Authors

Ryoichi Ono

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

onor-tky@umin.net (RO); nosaka@doc.medic.mie-u.ac.jp (TN)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Masahiro Masuya

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Naokazu Inoue

Roles Methodology

Current address: Department of Cell Science, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan

Affiliation Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Makoto Shinmei

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Satomi Ishii

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Yuri Maegawa

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan, Department of Hematology and Oncology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Bishnu Devi Maharjan

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Naoyuki Katayama

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Tetsuya Nosaka

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

onor-tky@umin.net (RO); nosaka@doc.medic.mie-u.ac.jp (TN)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Competing Interests

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