About the Authors

Masao Terasawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Masao Terasawa, Takehito Uruno

Affiliations Division of Immunogenetics, Department of Immunobiology and Neuroscience, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Japan

Takehito Uruno

Contributed equally to this work with: Masao Terasawa, Takehito Uruno

Affiliations Division of Immunogenetics, Department of Immunobiology and Neuroscience, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Japan

Sayako Mori

Affiliation Division of Immunogenetics, Department of Immunobiology and Neuroscience, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Mutsuko Kukimoto-Niino

Affiliations Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Japan, RIKEN Systems and Structural Biology Center, Yokohama, Japan

Akihiko Nishikimi

Affiliations Division of Immunogenetics, Department of Immunobiology and Neuroscience, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Research Center for Advanced Immunology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Japan

Fumiyuki Sanematsu

Affiliations Division of Immunogenetics, Department of Immunobiology and Neuroscience, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Research Center for Advanced Immunology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Japan

Yoshihiko Tanaka

Affiliations Division of Immunogenetics, Department of Immunobiology and Neuroscience, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Research Center for Advanced Immunology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Japan

Shigeyuki Yokoyama

Affiliations Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Japan, RIKEN Systems and Structural Biology Center, Yokohama, Japan, Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshinori Fukui

fukui@bioreg.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Division of Immunogenetics, Department of Immunobiology and Neuroscience, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Research Center for Advanced Immunology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MT TU SY YF. Performed the experiments: MT TU SM MK-N AN FS YT. Analyzed the data: MT TU MK-N SY YF. Wrote the paper: MT TU YF.