About the Authors

Yoshio Inokuchi

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoshio Inokuchi, Fabio Quaglia, Akikazu Hirashima, Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Hideko Kaji, Akira Kaji

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

Affiliation Faculty of Science and Engineering, Department of Biosciences, Teikyo University, Utsunomiya, Japan

Fabio Quaglia

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoshio Inokuchi, Fabio Quaglia, Akikazu Hirashima, Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Hideko Kaji, Akira Kaji

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Akikazu Hirashima

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoshio Inokuchi, Fabio Quaglia, Akikazu Hirashima, Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Hideko Kaji, Akira Kaji

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

Affiliation Faculty of Science and Engineering, Department of Biosciences, Teikyo University, Utsunomiya, Japan

Yoshihiro Yamamoto

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoshio Inokuchi, Fabio Quaglia, Akikazu Hirashima, Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Hideko Kaji, Akira Kaji

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

Hideko Kaji

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoshio Inokuchi, Fabio Quaglia, Akikazu Hirashima, Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Hideko Kaji, Akira Kaji

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Akira Kaji

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoshio Inokuchi, Fabio Quaglia, Akikazu Hirashima, Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Hideko Kaji, Akira Kaji

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kaji@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.